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

[Nicolas B. <nbi...@gm...>]

I'm sure everybody find this really sad... If he wants control over the
ploting capabilities, then why not have matplotlib and send him the script?I
know when I switched to matplotlib from matlab I wanted to be able to edit
directly the graph with point and click, but sometimes it is more powerful
or even easier to edit the script.

If the changes are really small, you could always send him an SVG that he
edits in Inkscape. I do that sometimes.

There might be other open source plotting packages which are WYSIWYG, like
qtiplot. Please, please! don't go with excel ;) Its quality is so much lower
then any other software.


2009/9/3 Shixin Zeng <zen...@gm...>

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> Shixin Zeng
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Shixin Zeng <zen...@gm...>
> Date: Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 11:02 PM
> Subject: Re: [Matplotlib-users] best format for MS word?
> To: Stan West <sta...@nr...>
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> On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 8:59 PM, Stan West<sta...@nr...> wrote:
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Shixin Zeng [mailto:zen...@gm...]
> >> Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2009 16:11
> >>
> >> While for embeding eps files in word, I've just tried that. MS word
> >> 2007 seems to have some problem on this. See the attached eps
> >> file produced from matplotlib. In MS word 2007, the labels
> >> and titles of axes are gone, even on the printed version of
> >> the word file. It's there when I view/print it with gsview.
> >
> > I don't have Word 2007, but I imported your file into Word 2003 and saw
> that
> > the titles and labels were missing.  I would blame that on shortcomings
> of the
> > Word PS engine.  When I printed to a non-PostScript printer, the titles
> and
> > labels were missing as in your test; that doesn't surprise me, because
> the
> > Word PS engine would be used to render for a non-PS printer.  However,
> when I
> > printed to PostScript devices (the Adobe PDF driver and the PDFCreator
> > driver), the titles and text were present; Word shouldn't invoke its PS
> engine
> > when the printer understands PS.  Is there any chance that you were using
> a
> > non-PS printer, or that your printer has two or more modes (like the
> > Hewlett-Packard models that automatically switch between PCL and PS) and
> you
> > were not using a PS driver?  How about testing with PDFCreator?
> >
> >
> I'm not sure if my printer supports PS or not, it's Dell Laser 1320c,
> I couldn't find any information from its property page.
>
> I'm afraid that I'm giving up matplotlib for my paper plotting, since
> my professor wants me to do plotting with excel such that he doesn't
> have to ask me to do every small change on the plot if he could do it
> himself.
>
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