Re: [Matplotlib-users] [matplotlib-users] Is it possible to set .pdf as defaut when saving an image?

[Benjamin R. <ben...@ou...>]

On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 8:33 AM, Fabien Lafont <laf...@gm...>wrote:

> Is it possible to set the extension .pdf as defaut when I save an
> image using the matplotlib bar. My coworkers are always saving the
> image in png and it's really ugly!
>
> Thx,
>
> Fab
>
>
Interesting request.  Looking through the backends, it appears that only
the Cairo backend currently supports a configurable rcParam for the default
filetype ('cairo.format').  All backends implement a
"get_default_filetype()" method for their canvases, but most of them have
that default hard-coded as "png".  This really only makes sense for
backends like agg, pdf, ps and such.

Devs - Maybe we should consider fixing this for the non-fileformat specific
backends?  Do we want an rcParam for each backend? Or a single rcParam for
default filetypes and deprecate 'cairo.format'?

Cheers!
Ben Root