Try changing the resolution to a value of 300 or 600 dpi. This should give you very high quality figures when using the Agg backend. The standard is 80 which is ok for screen display but for printing purposes you should use a higher value. See http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/matplotlib.pylab.html#-figure (dpi keyword argument).
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Vedpathak, Rameshwari IN BLR SISL
To: matplotlib-users@…431…ists.sourceforge.net
Sent: Monday, October 03, 2005 2:38 PM
Subject: [Matplotlib-users] picture quality of the figures
Hello,
We are using matplotlib version 0.8 (matplotlib-0.80.win32-py2.2.exe).
The plots are saved as .png, but we feel the quality of this picture is not so good. (not good resolution supported).
Is there anyway by which we can improve the picture quality? Say like by using .jpeg.
We tried to save the plot as .jpeg as mentioned on the site (http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/matplotlib.pylab.html#-savefig ) , but we get error __ “IOError: Do not know know to handle extension *.jpeg…”__
Does it mean that matplotlib 0.8 does not support jpeg format?
If anyone has an idea about this then please do let us know.
Thanks in advance
Best Regards,
Rameshwari