Re: [Matplotlib-users] Fwd: best format for MS word?
Yes, Me feel sad as well. But I don't think he wants to learn python and then matplotlib. He is not a computer professor after all. Best Regards Shixin Zeng On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 8:54 AM, Nicolas Bigaouettenbigaoue...@gmail.com wrote: I'm sure everybody find this really sad... If he wants control over the ploting capabilities, then why not have matplotlib and send him the script? I know when I switched to matplotlib from matlab I wanted to be able to edit directly the graph with point and click, but sometimes it is more powerful or even easier to edit the script. If the changes are really small, you could always send him an SVG that he edits in Inkscape. I do that sometimes. There might be other open source plotting packages which are WYSIWYG, like qtiplot. Please, please! don't go with excel ;) Its quality is so much lower then any other software. 2009/9/3 Shixin Zeng zeng.shi...@gmail.com Forgot CC list. Thanks for your helps. Best Regards Shixin Zeng -- Forwarded message -- From: Shixin Zeng zeng.shi...@gmail.com Date: Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 11:02 PM Subject: Re: [Matplotlib-users] best format for MS word? To: Stan West stan.w...@nrl.navy.mil On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 8:59 PM, Stan Weststan.w...@nrl.navy.mil wrote: -Original Message- From: Shixin Zeng [mailto:zeng.shi...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2009 16:11 While for embeding eps files in word, I've just tried that. MS word 2007 seems to have some problem on this. See the attached eps file produced from matplotlib. In MS word 2007, the labels and titles of axes are gone, even on the printed version of the word file. It's there when I view/print it with gsview. I don't have Word 2007, but I imported your file into Word 2003 and saw that the titles and labels were missing. I would blame that on shortcomings of the Word PS engine. When I printed to a non-PostScript printer, the titles and labels were missing as in your test; that doesn't surprise me, because the Word PS engine would be used to render for a non-PS printer. However, when I printed to PostScript devices (the Adobe PDF driver and the PDFCreator driver), the titles and text were present; Word shouldn't invoke its PS engine when the printer understands PS. Is there any chance that you were using a non-PS printer, or that your printer has two or more modes (like the Hewlett-Packard models that automatically switch between PCL and PS) and you were not using a PS driver? How about testing with PDFCreator? I'm not sure if my printer supports PS or not, it's Dell Laser 1320c, I couldn't find any information from its property page. I'm afraid that I'm giving up matplotlib for my paper plotting, since my professor wants me to do plotting with excel such that he doesn't have to ask me to do every small change on the plot if he could do it himself. -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
Re: [Matplotlib-users] best format for MS word?
OK,
I'm attaching a file that converts svg to emf, which is based on
librsvg and cairo.
I've spent the all night working on this, but the result is still not
satisfying. The converted emf file is even worse than the png file
produced from matplotlib. I'm not sure if it's because I did something
wrong or it's because of the limitation of this method itself. I'm
posting here in hope of some one with more knowledge would enlighten
me. Thanks.
To build the problem, you need to download librsvg and it's dependency
from http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/
Best Regards
Shixin Zeng
On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 6:43 PM, Shixin Zengzeng.shi...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
Could someone tell me what's the best format that matplotlib can
produce for insertion to MS word? I'm working on a paper using MS
word. I used matplotlib to produce the pictures in png' format, but
my professor doesn't satisfy with the quality of the pictures, he asks
me to do it in emf format, but I can't get an emf output from
matplotlib. While other vector formats that are supported by
matplotlib are not supported by MS word. I have worked days on
producing this pictures, I don't want to abandon them just because
they can't be imported to MS word. I really like to produce my
pictures by using matplotlib, but I can't really throw away MS word. I
also tried pstoedit to try to convert to emf from the ps, but it
doesn't work on my system due to some weired missing procedure entry
points in imagick dll.
I'm kinda in a hurry, any help would be greatly appreciated.
Best Regards
Shixin Zeng
/* A simple program that converts an svg file to an emf file
* based on librsvg and cairo
*
* Author Shixin Zeng zeng.shi...@gmail.com
* License: GPL V2 or newer
**/
#include cairo.h
#include librsvg/rsvg.h
#include windows.h
//#define FACTOR_INCH_TO_MM 25.4
//#define DPI 90
//static double dpi = 90;
static char *src = NULL;
static char *dest = NULL;
static GOptionEntry entries[] =
{
//{dpi, 'd', 0, G_OPTION_ARG_DOUBLE, dpi, the source dpi, dpi},
{from, 'f', 0, G_OPTION_ARG_STRING, src, the source file, src},
{to, 't', 0, G_OPTION_ARG_STRING, dest, the destination file,
dest},
{NULL}
};
int
main (int argc, char *argv[])
{
cairo_surface_t *surface;
cairo_t *cr;
HDC hdc;
RsvgHandle * rsvg_hd = NULL;
RsvgDimensionData rdim;
HDC dc = GetDC(NULL);
RECT dim;
float MetaPixelsX, MetaPixelsY;
float MetaMMX, MetaMMY;
int i = 1;
GError *error = NULL;
GOptionContext *context;
context = g_option_context_new(Convert SVG to EMF);
g_option_context_add_main_entries(context, entries, SVG_TO_EMF);
if(!g_option_context_parse(context, argc, argv, error))
{
g_print(option parsing failed: %s\n, error-message);
return 1;
}
if (src == NULL || dest == NULL){
g_print(source and dest files must be given\n%s,
g_option_context_get_help(context, TRUE, NULL));
return 1;
}
rsvg_init();
rsvg_hd = rsvg_handle_new_from_file(src, NULL);
//dpi = GetDeviceCaps(dc, HORZRES);
//rsvg_handle_set_dpi (rsvg_hd, dpi);
rsvg_handle_get_dimensions(rsvg_hd, rdim);
g_print(SVG: height = %d pt, width = %d pit\n, rdim.height,
rdim.width);
/* MetaPixelsX = MetaWidthMM * MetaPixels / (MetaMM * 100)
*
* where MetaPixelsX = number of pixels on the X axis
* MetaWidthMM = metafile width in 0.01mm units
* MetaPixels = width in pixels of the reference device
* MetaMM = width in millimeters of the reference device
*
* MetaWidthMM = MetaPixelsx * MetaMM * 100 / MetaPixels
*/
MetaPixelsX = GetDeviceCaps(dc, HORZRES);
MetaPixelsY = GetDeviceCaps(dc, VERTRES);
MetaMMX = GetDeviceCaps(dc, HORZSIZE);
MetaMMY = GetDeviceCaps(dc, VERTSIZE);
dim.left = 0;
dim.top = 0;
dim.bottom = rdim.height * MetaMMY * 100 / MetaPixelsY;
dim.right = rdim.width * MetaMMX * 100 / MetaPixelsX;
g_print(EMF: height = %d mm, width = %d mm\n, dim.bottom/100,
dim.right/100);
hdc = CreateEnhMetaFile(dc,
dest,
dim,
NULL);
ReleaseDC(NULL, dc);
if(!hdc){
g_print(creating emf file failed\n);
return 1;
}
surface = cairo_win32_printing_surface_create (hdc);
cr = cairo_create(surface);
if(!rsvg_handle_render_cairo(rsvg_hd, cr))
g_print(render to cairo failed\n);
cairo_destroy (cr);
cairo_surface_destroy (surface);
CloseEnhMetaFile(hdc
Re: [Matplotlib-users] best format for MS word?
No, I'm not scaling it down actually, I use the exact size matplotlib produces. So this is not a problem about scaling. Best Regards Shixin Zeng On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 11:35 AM, Chip Webberchipweb...@gmail.com wrote: If Word has problems scaling down the png image for viewing maybe you could try writing the image out to a smaller size or using imagemagick to scale it to the size you need. Shixin Zeng wrote: Yes, with large pictures, PNG is good enough, but when scaling down, it looks a bit fuzzy. Best Regards Shixin Zeng -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
Re: [Matplotlib-users] best format for MS word?
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Christopher Barkerchris.bar...@noaa.gov wrote: MS simply doesn't lay well with open vector formats, I think PNG with the right DPI, etc is still probably your best bet. Yes, I think I have to stick to this option Shixin Zeng wrote: I'm attaching a file that converts svg to emf, which is based on librsvg and cairo. I've spent the all night working on this, but the result is still not satisfying. The converted emf file is even worse than the png file produced from matplotlib. I'm not sure if it's because I did something wrong or it's because of the limitation of this method itself. I suspect you are getting a raster embedded in the emf, rather than proper vector graphics, but that's just a guess. This message is a couple years old, but does seem to indicate the vector emf is not supported (or wasn't then): http://lists.cairographics.org/archives/cairo/2007-February/009805.html However, if Cairo does support verctor emf, than you might be able to use the MPL Cairo back-end, rather than trying to go to SVG-emf. I looked at the cairo backend of MPL, it doesn't support EMF, it has only pdf, ps, svg, svgz outputs. good luck! -Chris -- Christopher Barker, Ph.D. Oceanographer Emergency Response Division NOAA/NOS/ORR (206) 526-6959 voice 7600 Sand Point Way NE (206) 526-6329 fax Seattle, WA 98115 (206) 526-6317 main reception chris.bar...@noaa.gov -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
Re: [Matplotlib-users] best format for MS word?
No, it doesn't work for me. Either it can't convert, or the quality is pretty low, there are some black blocks in the converted plot. Best Regards Shixin Zeng On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 8:30 AM, Gary Rubengru...@bigpond.net.au wrote: I haven't tried it myself, but this converter may do the trick. If it works, can you report back? I'd be interested to know: http://sk1project.org/modules.php?name=Productsproduct=uniconvertor Gary R. Shixin Zeng wrote: Hi, Could someone tell me what's the best format that matplotlib can produce for insertion to MS word? I'm working on a paper using MS word. I used matplotlib to produce the pictures in png' format, but my professor doesn't satisfy with the quality of the pictures, he asks me to do it in emf format, but I can't get an emf output from matplotlib. While other vector formats that are supported by matplotlib are not supported by MS word. I have worked days on producing this pictures, I don't want to abandon them just because they can't be imported to MS word. I really like to produce my pictures by using matplotlib, but I can't really throw away MS word. I also tried pstoedit to try to convert to emf from the ps, but it doesn't work on my system due to some weired missing procedure entry points in imagick dll. I'm kinda in a hurry, any help would be greatly appreciated. Best Regards Shixin Zeng -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
[Matplotlib-users] Fwd: best format for MS word?
Forgot CC list. Thanks for your helps. Best Regards Shixin Zeng -- Forwarded message -- From: Shixin Zeng zeng.shi...@gmail.com Date: Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 11:02 PM Subject: Re: [Matplotlib-users] best format for MS word? To: Stan West stan.w...@nrl.navy.mil On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 8:59 PM, Stan Weststan.w...@nrl.navy.mil wrote: -Original Message- From: Shixin Zeng [mailto:zeng.shi...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2009 16:11 While for embeding eps files in word, I've just tried that. MS word 2007 seems to have some problem on this. See the attached eps file produced from matplotlib. In MS word 2007, the labels and titles of axes are gone, even on the printed version of the word file. It's there when I view/print it with gsview. I don't have Word 2007, but I imported your file into Word 2003 and saw that the titles and labels were missing. I would blame that on shortcomings of the Word PS engine. When I printed to a non-PostScript printer, the titles and labels were missing as in your test; that doesn't surprise me, because the Word PS engine would be used to render for a non-PS printer. However, when I printed to PostScript devices (the Adobe PDF driver and the PDFCreator driver), the titles and text were present; Word shouldn't invoke its PS engine when the printer understands PS. Is there any chance that you were using a non-PS printer, or that your printer has two or more modes (like the Hewlett-Packard models that automatically switch between PCL and PS) and you were not using a PS driver? How about testing with PDFCreator? I'm not sure if my printer supports PS or not, it's Dell Laser 1320c, I couldn't find any information from its property page. I'm afraid that I'm giving up matplotlib for my paper plotting, since my professor wants me to do plotting with excel such that he doesn't have to ask me to do every small change on the plot if he could do it himself. -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
Re: [Matplotlib-users] best format for MS word?
Yes, I tried OOo. But its pdf/ps/svg importer is not good enough, it kinda screwed up my pictures, so ... Best Regards Shixin Zeng On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 6:50 PM, jason-s...@creativetrax.com wrote: Shixin Zeng wrote: Hi, Could someone tell me what's the best format that matplotlib can produce for insertion to MS word? I'm working on a paper using MS word. I used matplotlib to produce the pictures in png' format, but my professor doesn't satisfy with the quality of the pictures, he asks me to do it in emf format, but I can't get an emf output from matplotlib. While other vector formats that are supported by matplotlib are not supported by MS word. I have worked days on producing this pictures, I don't want to abandon them just because they can't be imported to MS word. I really like to produce my pictures by using matplotlib, but I can't really throw away MS word. I also tried pstoedit to try to convert to emf from the ps, but it doesn't work on my system due to some weired missing procedure entry points in imagick dll. I'm kinda in a hurry, any help would be greatly appreciated. A quick google search indicates that OpenOffice can read EPS files (postscript) and convert to emf. Jason -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
Re: [Matplotlib-users] best format for MS word?
How do I utilize pyEmf? AFAIK, it's used by the old emf backend in matplotlib, which is not maintained or functional any more. Best Regards Shixin Zeng On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 8:14 PM, Andrew Strawstraw...@astraw.com wrote: Shixin Zeng wrote: Hi, Could someone tell me what's the best format that matplotlib can produce for insertion to MS word? You can try PyEMF. I don't know its status -- it might need some TLC. http://pyemf.sourceforge.net/ -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
Re: [Matplotlib-users] best format for MS word?
Yes, with large pictures, PNG is good enough, but when scaling down, it looks a bit fuzzy. Best Regards Shixin Zeng On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 8:05 PM, Alan G Isaacalan.is...@gmail.com wrote: On 9/1/2009 8:22 PM Shixin Zeng apparently wrote: Yes, I tried OOo. But its pdf/ps/svg importer is not good enough I'm afraid that for EPS you will not do better by moving to a MS product. At least my luck has been bad. Otoh, I have had pretty good luck with PNG. Alan Isaac PS http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/SVG_Import_Filter -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
Re: [Matplotlib-users] best format for MS word?
Yes, the DPI i'm using is 300, and I tried to change it to 600, or 1200, but I can't see much difference. Best Regards Shixin Zeng On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 9:28 PM, Eric Firingefir...@hawaii.edu wrote: Shixin Zeng wrote: Hi, Could someone tell me what's the best format that matplotlib can produce for insertion to MS word? I'm working on a paper using MS word. I used matplotlib to produce the pictures in png' format, but my professor doesn't satisfy with the quality of the pictures, he asks me to do it in emf format, but I can't get an emf output from matplotlib. While other vector formats that are supported by matplotlib are not supported by MS word. I have worked days on producing this pictures, I don't want to abandon them just because they can't be imported to MS word. I really like to produce my pictures by using matplotlib, but I can't really throw away MS word. I also tried pstoedit to try to convert to emf from the ps, but it doesn't work on my system due to some weired missing procedure entry points in imagick dll. Have you tried brute-force? Make a very high-resolution png (use a high dpi setting in savefig), and import that? Eric I'm kinda in a hurry, any help would be greatly appreciated. Best Regards Shixin Zeng -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
