Re: [Matplotlib-users] picture quality of the figures

[Favre-Nicolin V. <vi...@us...>]

> 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.

  Jpeg is will not be better- it is also a compressed format.

  A better quality can be obtained with postscript (*.ps) or encapsulated=20
postscript (*.eps)

> 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?

   Try with .jpg, not .jpeg

	Vincent
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