Re: [Matplotlib-users] Fwd: best format for MS word?
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
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
[Matplotlib-users] Fwd: best format for MS word?
Forgot to copy the list.
-- Forwarded message --
From: Scott Sinclair scott.sinclair...@gmail.com
Date: 2009/9/2
Subject: Re: [Matplotlib-users] best format for MS word?
To: Shixin Zeng zeng.shi...@gmail.com
2009/9/2 Shixin Zeng zeng.shi...@gmail.com:
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.
Word seems to make PNG's very fuzzy when it needs to rescale them. Two
options I can think of are:
1. Try to size the figure so that Word imports it at 100% without
scaling (play with the following)
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
fig = plt.figure()
ax = fig.add_subplot(111)
ax.plot([1,2,3])
fig.set_size_inches((4, 3))
plt.savefig('figure.png', dpi=600)
2. Save your figures as PDF's and view at large magnification in Adobe
Reader, then use the image select? tool to copy the image to your
clipboard. In Word Edit-Paste-Special as an enhanced metafile.
Cheers,
Scott
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[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
