What I don’t understand is why we need previews at all?
Is this because Microsoft software cannot display an eps file?
Why not? Isn’t that one of the easiest drivers to write?
Are they not adding eps format out of spite?
Mark
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From: “Theodore R Drain” <
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Subject: Re: [Matplotlib-users] eps file format
To: “Christian Meesters” <meesters@…624…>
Cc:
matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Message-ID: <1159480577-30640.00012.00075-smmsdV2.1.4@…142…>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=“us-ascii”FYI I don’t know what the current state of affairs was but I
looked into this a little bit about 5 or so years ago. Adobe has
a spec for what the preview image in an EPS file is suppose to be
(I can’t remember the details on what it is but you can google
for the EPS spec) but I don’t think anyone really followed it.On Mac’s, everything produced a PICT image and on Windows
everything produced something else (I forget exactly what it
was). In short, at the time I checked it out, it was very
difficult to make a high quality preview image that would workwell on a Mac and a Windows box.
It would be nice if things were different now. We do a lot of
plotting that ends up in presentations and it would be nice if
you could embed an EPS in the presentation with a high qualitypreview.
Ted
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From: “Christian Meesters” <meesters@…624…>To: matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Matplotlib-users] eps file formatAs for the preview header, I suspect there arte 3rd part tools
that
can do this (ImageMagick?). We should be able to do it
ourself with
agg, but it would require someone to dig in and figure out the
spec.JDH
One last remark on this: Since so many journals demand this,would it be worth
a feature request? (I don’t have the time nor the skills to work
on this.)
One may think of this as one wishes (don’t like these publishing
companies
and their demands, either), but matplotlib wants to enable itsusers to
produce figures ready for publication, right?
Christian
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