[Matplotlib-users] metadata of png-files

[Marius J. K. <mj...@ny...>]

Thanks for your help concerning the pdf files! It was exactly what I was looking for. Is there anything similar for png-files?



> Marius Jan Klein <mjk524@ny...> writes:
>
>> I want to edit the metadata of pdf- or png-files when creating one of
>> these files. I do not want to use for example Pypdf because then
>> Python must read the file first before it can be edited.



>Jouni K. Seppänen <jks@ik...> writes:
>
>Now there is (in the trunk, revision 7964), via the PdfPages mechanism:
>
>>from matplotlib.backends.backend_pdf import PdfPages
>>from pylab import *
>>pdf = PdfPages('testing.pdf')
>>plot([3,1,4])
>>pdf.savefig()
>>d = pdf.infodict()
>>d['Title'] = 'Testing'
>>d['Author'] = u'Jouni K. Sepp\xe4nen'
>>pdf.close()
>