[Matplotlib-users] WebP support

2010-10-02 Thread Nils Wagner
Hi all, just curious - is the WebP format supported by matplotlib ? Nils http://code.google.com/intl/de-DE/speed/webp/ -- Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify

Re: [Matplotlib-users] WebP support

2010-10-02 Thread Jouni K . Seppänen
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? -- Jouni K. Seppänen

Re: [Matplotlib-users] imshow() and a transparent colormap?

2010-10-02 Thread Nicolas Bigaouette
On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Stan West stan.w...@nrl.navy.mil wrote: *From:* Nicolas Bigaouette [mailto:nbigaoue...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Thursday, September 30, 2010 18:00 What I would like to do it have a colormap which is transparent for lower values of data and opaque for high values,

Re: [Matplotlib-users] WebP support

2010-10-02 Thread Benjamin Root
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

Re: [Matplotlib-users] imshow() and a transparent colormap?

2010-10-02 Thread Benjamin Root
On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Nicolas Bigaouette nbigaoue...@gmail.comwrote: On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Stan West stan.w...@nrl.navy.mil wrote: *From:* Nicolas Bigaouette [mailto:nbigaoue...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Thursday, September 30, 2010 18:00 What I would like to do it have a

Re: [Matplotlib-users] WebP support

2010-10-02 Thread Benjamin Root
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

Re: [Matplotlib-users] WebP support

2010-10-02 Thread Jouni K . Seppänen
Benjamin Root ben.r...@ou.edu writes: And yet, we still allow for saving to jpegs. Wow, I didn't know. Last time I tried that I got a traceback, and assumed that it was not supported exactly because jpeg is a nonsensical format for most graphs. I just tried again, and got TypeError: 'int'

[Matplotlib-users] postscript fonts: examples in matplotlib

2010-10-02 Thread Ed Lazarus
All, I am wondering if anyone knows of a working example that yields a postscript figure editable in Adobe Illustrator; that is, the characters are editable as characters. I have only been able to get drawn fonts and would love to have a test case that is known to work. My environment is:

Re: [Matplotlib-users] WebP support

2010-10-02 Thread Benjamin Root
On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Jouni K. Seppänen j...@iki.fi wrote: Benjamin Root ben.r...@ou.edu writes: And yet, we still allow for saving to jpegs. Wow, I didn't know. Last time I tried that I got a traceback, and assumed that it was not supported exactly because jpeg is a nonsensical

Re: [Matplotlib-users] WebP support

2010-10-02 Thread Gaius Hammond
It's really not clear to me why we would want to lower the quality of our graphs to save Google's bandwidth bills. Because that's all this is... Cheers, G -- -Original Message- From: Nils Wagner nwag...@iam.uni-stuttgart.de Date: Sat, 02 Oct 2010 12:59:12 To:

Re: [Matplotlib-users] WebP support

2010-10-02 Thread Daπid
On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 7:39 PM, Jouni K. Seppänen j...@iki.fi wrote: And yet, we still allow for saving to jpegs. Wow, I didn't know. Last time I tried that I got a traceback, and assumed that it was not supported exactly because jpeg is a nonsensical format for most graphs. Don't forget MPL