On Apr 23, 2014, at 8:35 AM, Chao YUE <chaoyue...@gmail.com> wrote:
> yes, Ben, I understand the difference now.
>
> To Mike: I have to select the region of the figure I need in the pdf file and
> paste it in the powerpoint ... Isn't this you're doing as well?
Why do you need to select a region? This takes a screen grab that will be
terrible quality, doesn't it? Just drag the file into powerpoint (or use
insert/picture). If you need to crop the PDF do that in Acrobat, or whatever
PDF software you use.
Cheers, Jody
>
> But fine, I can go with the current quality. Thanks to you all for this
> discussion.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Chao
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 3:31 PM, Benjamin Root <ben.r...@ou.edu> wrote:
> Yes, there is a difference if you use the button versus explicitly stating
> the dpi in a savefig call. When you use the button, matplotlib has to use the
> default dpi since there is no other way to specify it.
>
> Cheers!
> Ben Root
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 5:03 PM, Chao YUE <chaoyue...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes, in fact I set dpi as 1000, which is already very high. In fact I have
> another question, will there be any difference if I use the save button on
> the interactive plotting toolbar and use the command line
> figure.savefig('xx.png',dpi=1000)?
>
> Chao
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 10:59 PM, Jody Klymak <jkly...@uvic.ca> wrote:
> Did you set the dpi of the png?
>
> Cheers, Jody
>
>
> On Apr 21, 2014, at 13:50 PM, ChaoYue <chaoyue...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> OK, I tried but I don't really see the difference between jpg and png by my
>> eyes in the attached case, maybe for other more complicated plots there will
>> be real difference. Anyway, thanks to all for your nice discussions. And,
>> BTW, I tried >2 hours trying to find a way to convert svg to emf, but now I
>> konw :p
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Chao
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 9:49 PM, Benjamin Root-2 [via matplotlib] <[hidden
>> email]> wrote:
>> JPGs will *always* have "bit blur" as it is a lossy image format. PNGs would
>> be a better bet.
>>
>> Ben Root
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 3:33 PM, ChaoYue <[hidden email]> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Thank you all for your kind response. I am sorry, but none of these
>> solutions significantly improved the visual quality on microsoft powerpiont
>> 2007. Thought I didn't try eps. So probably l have to go with the current
>> quality.
>> here is a best case I have now:
>> https://www.dropbox.com/s/0uhjogalz92hssm/different_figure_example.pptx
>> You can still see the "a bit blur" everywhere (currently with jpg being
>> inserted directly). I didn't have better quality than this one by trying the
>> method as suggested by you. Let me know if I am raising too much high demand
>> for this.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Chao
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 4:41 PM, Jonathan Slavin [via matplotlib] <[hidden
>> email]> wrote:
>> Another alternative, if a vector graphics format doesn't work, is to make
>> your png figure large. Then when you shrink it down to fit in your slide,
>> it should still have good resolution.
>>
>> Jon
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 10:13 AM, <[hidden email]> wrote:
>> No Powerpoint version I know supports SVG (or any vector graphics format
>> useful in this case) and Matplotlib does not
>> export WMF graphics anymore. So the easiest way is to use PNGs, if you can
>> live with raster graphics.
>>
>> Alternatively, if you need vector graphics, you can export the Matplotlib
>> plot as SVG and convert it to WMF or EMF using
>> Inkscape. This can be done in the command line like this:
>>
>> "c:\Program Files\Inkscape-0.48\inkscape.exe" --without-gui
>> --export-emf="output.emf" "input.svg"
>>
>>
>> Juergen
>>
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