Re: [Matplotlib-users] metadata of png-files

[Michael D. <md...@st...>]

The PNG writer in matplotlib doesn't support writing of extended 
metadata.  However, it may be less useful anyway, as while you can put 
arbitrary key/value pairs in a PNG file, I don't believe there's any 
standards for what the keys should be, so there aren't many tools that 
use it.  (If I'm just not able to find it, point it out to me...)  By 
contrast, many of the metadata fields in PDF are standardized so content 
management systems etc. do take advantage of them.

Mike

Marius Jan Klein wrote:
> Thanks for your help concerning the pdf files! It was exactly what I was looking for. Is there anything similar for png-files?
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>> Marius Jan Klein <mjk524@ny...> writes:
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>>> 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.
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>> Jouni K. Seppänen <jks@ik...> writes:
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>> Now there is (in the trunk, revision 7964), via the PdfPages mechanism:
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>> >from matplotlib.backends.backend_pdf import PdfPages
>> >from pylab import *
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>>> 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()
>>>       
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