Re: [Matplotlib-users] EMF export doesn't work

2009-05-25 Thread Bryan Cole
On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 10:50 +0200, Thomas Pfaff wrote: > Hello there, > > when I started with matplotlib I was really enthusiastic that I can throw > all those Excel, IDL, Matlab and whatever else I used until now overboard > and do everything from data processing to visualization in beloved Pytho

Re: [Matplotlib-users] EMF export doesn't work

2009-05-23 Thread Michiel de Hoon
--- On Tue, 5/19/09, Thomas Pfaff wrote: > Now, here at work I have to use a Windows PC and PowerPoint > and graphics just look best in PowerPoint if they are in > EMF format. Funny enough there seems to be no converter on > the market to properly convert any other vector format > matplotlib can

Re: [Matplotlib-users] EMF export doesn't work

2009-05-22 Thread Sebastian Busch
Thomas Pfaff wrote: > ... ImageMagick just puts a bitmap representation of the > image into the EMF-file ... I want ... vectors, though. hey thomas! i see. perhaps xfig could then help you, it has an export to emf feature (and can import ps files, see for example http://www.thamnos.de/computer-co

Re: [Matplotlib-users] EMF export doesn't work

2009-05-19 Thread Thomas Pfaff
> Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2009 11:15 AM > To: matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Matplotlib-users] EMF export doesn't work > > Thomas Pfaff wrote: > > ... EMF format. ... no converter on the market to properly > > convert any other vecto

Re: [Matplotlib-users] EMF export doesn't work

2009-05-19 Thread John Hunter
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 3:50 AM, Thomas Pfaff wrote: > Hello there, > > when I started with matplotlib I was really enthusiastic that I can throw > all those Excel, IDL, Matlab and whatever else I used until now overboard > and do everything from data processing to visualization in beloved Python.

Re: [Matplotlib-users] EMF export doesn't work

2009-05-19 Thread Sebastian Busch
Thomas Pfaff wrote: > ... EMF format. ... no converter on the market to properly > convert any other vector format matplotlib can produce to EMF. ... hey thomas! what about convert from imagemagick? "convert test.ps test.emf" gives some output -- if this is indeed a correct emf file i cannot tell

Re: [Matplotlib-users] EMF export doesn't work

2009-05-19 Thread Thomas Pfaff
edu] > Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 5:38 PM > To: matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Matplotlib-users] EMF export doesn't work > > Unfortunately, the EMF backend is no longer maintained. We had > discussed removing it well over a year ago, and I actually

Re: [Matplotlib-users] EMF export doesn't work

2009-03-20 Thread Eric Firing
Michael Droettboom wrote: > Unfortunately, the EMF backend is no longer maintained. We had > discussed removing it well over a year ago, and I actually thought it > had been removed, but obviously it wasn't. > > It needs someone to port it to the new backend API introduced in 0.98.x > and to m

Re: [Matplotlib-users] EMF export doesn't work

2009-03-20 Thread Michael Droettboom
Unfortunately, the EMF backend is no longer maintained. We had discussed removing it well over a year ago, and I actually thought it had been removed, but obviously it wasn't. It needs someone to port it to the new backend API introduced in 0.98.x and to maintain that code. When quite some ti

[Matplotlib-users] EMF export doesn't work

2009-03-20 Thread Torsten Bronger
Hallöchen! I use pyemf 2.0 and Matplotlib 0.98.5. If I try to save a trivial plot into an EMF file, I get Traceback (most recent call last): File "./make_plots.py", line 23, in figure.savefig(sample_name + "_pds.emf") File "/usr/lib/python2.5/[...]/matplotlib/figure.py", line 990, in sa