Re: [Matplotlib-users] best format for MS word?

[Shixin Z. <zen...@gm...>]

OK,

I'm attaching a file that converts svg to emf, which is based on
librsvg and cairo.

I've spent the all night working on this, but the result is still not
satisfying. The converted emf file is even worse than the png file
produced from matplotlib. I'm not sure if it's because I did something
wrong or it's because of the limitation of this method itself. I'm
posting here in hope of some one with more knowledge would enlighten
me. Thanks.

To build the problem, you need to download librsvg and it's dependency
from http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/

Best Regards

Shixin Zeng



On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 6:43 PM, Shixin Zeng<zen...@gm...> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Could someone tell me what's the best format that matplotlib can
> produce for insertion to MS word? I'm working on a paper using MS
> word. I used matplotlib to produce the pictures in "png' format, but
> my professor doesn't satisfy with the quality of the pictures, he asks
> me to do it in "emf" format, but I can't get an "emf" output from
> matplotlib. While other vector formats that are supported by
> matplotlib are not supported by MS word. I have worked days on
> producing this pictures, I don't want to abandon them just because
> they can't be imported to MS word. I really like to produce my
> pictures by using matplotlib, but I can't really throw away MS word. I
> also tried pstoedit to try to convert to emf from the ps, but it
> doesn't work on my system due to some weired missing procedure entry
> points in imagick dll.
>
> I'm kinda in a hurry, any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Best Regards
>
> Shixin Zeng
>