Re: [Matplotlib-users] EMF export doesn't work

[Bryan C. <br...@co...>]

On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 10:50 +0200, Thomas Pfaff wrote:
> Hello there,
> 
> when I started with matplotlib I was really enthusiastic that I can throw
> all those Excel, IDL, Matlab and whatever else I used until now overboard
> and do everything from data processing to visualization in beloved Python.
> 
> Now, here at work I have to use a Windows PC and PowerPoint and graphics
> just look best in PowerPoint if they are in EMF format.
> Funny enough there seems to be no converter on the market to properly
> convert any other vector format matplotlib can produce to EMF. Even the way
> via Inkscape fails even with simple plots.
> 
> If I'm wrong about the converter, please tell me and bury EMF-support.
> If not, what would you think would be the effort and the time needed to port
> the emf-backend to the latest version of matplotlib? I might at least give
> it a try.

EMF support in OpenOffice is quite good (OOo uses emf internally, I
believe). You can import either SVG or PDF into OOo-Draw using the
respective OOo-extension and export as emf from there. 

bc