I should add that in 0.91.1, you'll be hit by this bug: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=475ED00A.400%40stsci.edu
You can wait for 0.91.2, or patch your cbook.py as suggested by Brandon in the above thread. Cheers, Mike Michael Droettboom wrote: > [I only seem to be getting this message from the list today, despite the > timestamp of 2007-12-05. Sorry for the delay.] > > As of matplotlib 0.91.1, savefig() supports saving to a file-like object > for most backends (excluding Gtk and Wx). You can pass in a StringIO > object to savefig for instance, and then pass its content to the XML > parser of your choice. (There is no way to get DOM objects directly, > since the SVG backend actually writes the XML content directly as a > stream of bytes). > > You can specify SVG as your output by either setting the backend > appropriately or passing a "format" kwarg to savfig, e.g. > > savefig(fileobj, format="svg") > > Cheers, > Mike > > bplewe wrote: >> [Fairly new at matplotlib, but very happy with it so far] >> >> Is it possible to retrieve images rendered by one of the backends as an >> object, rather than just saving to a file? >> >> Specifically, I need to render graphs to SVG code, that I can turn into a >> DOM object for further manipulation. I can save to a temp file and >> immediately reload it into a DOM, but that is cumbersome in a single >> program. >> >> The only place I can see to generate rendered output is savefig(). There is >> a reference in the documentation to using a file-like object with the Cairo >> backend. Is that the only possibility? >> >> If so, any ideas on a workaround other than temp files? > -- Michael Droettboom Science Software Branch Operations and Engineering Division Space Telescope Science Institute Operated by AURA for NASA ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
