On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 11:54 AM, Darren Dale <dsdal...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 11:58 AM, Benjamin Root <ben.r...@ou.edu> wrote:
> > On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 7:28 AM, Jouni K. Seppänen <j...@iki.fi> wrote:
> >>
> >> "Nils Wagner" <nwag...@iam.uni-stuttgart.de> writes:
> >>
> >> > just curious - is the WebP format supported by matplotlib
> >>
> >> No. It seems to be a method for lossy compression of photographs and
> >> therefore not likely to be useful for line drawings - or what did you
> >> have in mind?
> >
> > And yet, we still allow for saving to jpegs.
>
> Only some of the non-agg backends support saving to jpegs. Whenever
> someone posts to the list asking why jpegs are not supported, the
> answer is that, aside from not being supported by agg, lossy formats
> like jpeg are a poor choice for saving line art.
>
>
Heh, I never noticed that. On this computer, I use TkAgg, and it worked
just fine. Admittedly, I haven't tried this out much because I usually use
png or one of the vector-based formats.
Ben Root
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