On Fri, 04 Jun 2010 22:27:33 -0000, exar...@twistedmatrix.com <exar...@twistedmatrix.com> wrote: : It's possible to plot with matplotlib without a display. I'm not : surprised you didn't figure out how, though, it's not all that obvious.
Thank you very much. That's a good start. Do you know of any good documentation on how to choose and use backends? What I find is very thin... : Check out the matplotlib.use function. For example: : : import matplotlib : matplotlib.use('agg') : import pylab : pylab.plot([1, 3, 5]) : fig = file('foo.png', 'wb') : pylab.savefig(fig, format='png') : fig.close() Raster graphics is not good enough, I will need a backend which does vector graphics and pdf output. AFAICS from the FAQ at sourceforge, agg only supports raster and png. Cairo supports vector graphics and PDF, but I cannot find any information about how/if it deals with X11... :-- George -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list