Rob,
I think you may have just implemented/discovered/unearthed the Holy Grail! This looks fantastic. We have been fighting with EPS files for years and trying to come up with a way to have plots that can be embedded in Office documents that look good on the screen for presentations and still print well.
The EPS preview image has never worked very well and the resulting files almost always had problems when moved from MS Office on the PC to/from the Mac. If your system works well across platforms, that could save the engineers here a lot of time.
We'll have to download this and give it a try. Thanks!
Ted
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At 06:03 PM 11/19/2005, Rob McMullen wrote:
I just submitted a patch to add a new non-interactive backend that
produces enhanced metafiles, an OpenOffice and Microsoft Windows
scalable graphics format that can also be embedded in .rtf files.
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1361839&group_id=80706&atid=560722
The backend is based on my pyemf package that I finally released with
its first public beta:
http://pyemf.sourceforge.net
The API should be stable -- I'm only planning on adding to it and not
changing any existing method signatures in the version 2.0.* series.
Oh, and I didn't say so in the patch itself, but I'm happy to donate
the patch to matplotlib under the default matplotlib license.
Rob
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I'm very interested to see how stuff looks on a Mac. I don't have
access to one, so I'll be looking forward to your results.
I still haven't figured out how to get antialiased lines in EMFs, so
the output doesn't look as good on the screen as all the agg
rendering. But, if you push the dots per inch high enough in the
savefig() command, it looks decent. It does have the advantage of
being a vector format, at least, so it resizes well. 
It's really worked well for me to be able to embed multiple EMFs and
text and tables in an RTF, with everything machine generated by
Python. Hopefully it works across platforms for you guys.
Rob
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On 11/21/05, Ted Drain <ted.drain@...179...> wrote:
Rob,
I think you may have just implemented/discovered/unearthed the Holy
Grail! This looks fantastic. We have been fighting with EPS files for
years and trying to come up with a way to have plots that can be embedded
in Office documents that look good on the screen for presentations and
still print well.
The EPS preview image has never worked very well and the resulting files
almost always had problems when moved from MS Office on the PC to/from the
Mac. If your system works well across platforms, that could save the
engineers here a lot of time.
We'll have to download this and give it a try. Thanks!
Ted
At 06:03 PM 11/19/2005, Rob McMullen wrote:
>I just submitted a patch to add a new non-interactive backend that
>produces enhanced metafiles, an OpenOffice and Microsoft Windows
>scalable graphics format that can also be embedded in .rtf files.
>
>http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1361839&group_id=80706&atid=560722
>
>The backend is based on my pyemf package that I finally released with
>its first public beta:
>
>http://pyemf.sourceforge.net
>
>The API should be stable -- I'm only planning on adding to it and not
>changing any existing method signatures in the version 2.0.* series.
>
>Oh, and I didn't say so in the patch itself, but I'm happy to donate
>the patch to matplotlib under the default matplotlib license.
>
>Rob
>
>
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