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

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

On 02/07/2012 10:48 AM, Benjamin Root wrote:
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> On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 8:33 AM, Fabien Lafont <laf...@gm... 
> <mailto:laf...@gm...>> wrote:
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>     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!
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>     Thx,
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>     Fab
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> 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.
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> 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'?

I would definitely lean toward the latter -- unify it under a single 
rcParam.

Mike