On 12/28/10 4:14 PM, crwe crwe wrote: > I need your help! I have an image, saved in .eps (vector) format. > > Now the image is just a couple of plots with a legend, saved in colour, but > without special tick marks to differentiate the plots. What I need to do now > is *add the tick marks*. A diamond to one plot, a little cross for another > etc. The original data that produced the plots is gone, I only have the .eps > to work with.
darn! > I tried editing the image with PIL, but as soon as I load the image it > becomes rasterized (=a small matrix of pixels, unusably ugly). right, PIL is a raster tool. There is some hope that you could have PIL rasterize it with much higher resolution for better quality, but it's really not what you are looking for. > Is there any way to edit the EPS in matplotlib? no -- that is not at all what MPL is about. > Or maybe some other, easier way to add the plot marks ex post? I am no expert > on vector graphic formats. I'd use a vector graphics program. EPS is almost the same as Adobe Illustrator's format, for instance. InkScape is a really nice cross platform open source vector graphics tool. It's native format is SVG. I'll bet you could find a way to convert the EPS to svg, or, if you're lucky, InkScape can read EPS. The nice thing about SVG is that being XML, you may be able to manipulate it directly with a python script or something, if you have many similar plots to do, so you don't have to point and click on each one. Inkscape can be used as a command line SVG renderer, too. Good luck! -Chris -- Christopher Barker, Ph.D. Oceanographer Emergency Response Division NOAA/NOS/OR&R (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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn how Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) One Node allows customers to consolidate database storage, standardize their database environment, and, should the need arise, upgrade to a full multi-node Oracle RAC database without downtime or disruption http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
