SVG export mangled

Dieter_Weber · June 21, 2011, 10:47am

Hi folks,
when I tried to export figures as SVG, the result was completely messed
up. Export in other formats works.

Appended you find:
* Script to reproduce error
* Broken SVG
* Working EPS
* Broken SVG rendered by Gnome image viewer (eog)
* Broken SVG rendered by Inkscape

Setup:
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
Python 2.6.5 (stock)
Matplotlib current version from git, installed with "python setupegg.py
develop"

Can you reproduce the problem on your machine?

Greetings,
Dieter

savefig.eog.png

savefig.eps (10.4 KB)

savefig.inkscape.png

svg-export2.py (194 Bytes)

Michael_Droettboom · June 21, 2011, 1:01pm

I see what is happening here… The SVG backend was recently
re-written to write some of the path data in C – unfortunately the
numbers being written there are locale-aware, and in your locale it
appears to be using ‘,’ as a decimal point.

I put up a fix for this here:

In the meantime, you may have some luck by setting your locale

before running python, i.e.:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8 python svg_export2.py
Cheers,
Mike

···

https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/369

Hi folks,
when I tried to export figures as SVG, the result was completely messed
up. Export in other formats works. Appended you find:
* Script to reproduce error
* Broken SVG
* Working EPS
* Broken SVG rendered by Gnome image viewer (eog)
* Broken SVG rendered by Inkscape
Setup:
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
Python 2.6.5 (stock)
Matplotlib current version from git, installed with "python setupegg.py
develop"
Can you reproduce the problem on your machine?
Greetings,
Dieter
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Dieter_Weber · June 21, 2011, 2:49pm

Hi Mike,
your changes in the pull request fixed the problem for me, thanks a lot!

Greetings,
Dieter

···

Am Dienstag, den 21.06.2011, 09:01 -0400 schrieb Michael Droettboom:

I see what is happening here... The SVG backend was recently
re-written to write some of the path data in C -- unfortunately the
numbers being written there are locale-aware, and in your locale it
appears to be using ',' as a decimal point.

I put up a fix for this here:

https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/369

In the meantime, you may have some luck by setting your locale before
running python, i.e.:

LANG=en_US.UTF-8 python svg_export2.py

Cheers,
Mike

On 06/21/2011 06:47 AM, Dieter Weber wrote:
> Hi folks,
> when I tried to export figures as SVG, the result was completely messed
> up. Export in other formats works.
>
> Appended you find:
> * Script to reproduce error
> * Broken SVG
> * Working EPS
> * Broken SVG rendered by Gnome image viewer (eog)
> * Broken SVG rendered by Inkscape
>
> Setup:
> Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
> Python 2.6.5 (stock)
> Matplotlib current version from git, installed with "python setupegg.py
> develop"
>
> Can you reproduce the problem on your machine?
>
> Greetings,
> Dieter
>
>
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