[Fairly new at matplotlib, but very happy with it so far]
Is it possible to retrieve images rendered by one of the backends as an
object, rather than just saving to a file?
Specifically, I need to render graphs to SVG code, that I can turn into a
DOM object for further manipulation. I can
[I only seem to be getting this message from the list today, despite the
timestamp of 2007-12-05. Sorry for the delay.]
As of matplotlib 0.91.1, savefig() supports saving to a file-like object
for most backends (excluding Gtk and Wx). You can pass in a StringIO
object to savefig for
I should add that in 0.91.1, you'll be hit by this bug:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=475ED00A.400%40stsci.edu
You can wait for 0.91.2, or patch your cbook.py as suggested by Brandon
in the above thread.
Cheers,
Mike
Michael Droettboom wrote:
[I only seem to be