Re: [Matplotlib-users] Possible bug with saving eps figure

[john c. <joh...@gm...>]

Filipe Pires Alvarenga Fernandes <ocefpaf@...> writes:

> 
> Yep, that's what I was expecting.  It should fail with both show() and
> the save as 'png' format.  However, it only fails when trying to save
> an 'eps'
> 
> -Filipe
> 
> On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 1:12 PM, Benjamin Root <ben.root <at> ou.edu> 
wrote:
> > On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Michael Droettboom <mdroe <at> 
stsci.edu> wrote:
> >>
> >> That's not a bug.  linewidth is required to be a float, rather than a
> >> string.  Python's typing is generally a little stricter than languages
> >> such as JavaScript.
> >>
> >> Mike
> >>
> >
> > I think the bigger question is why does it _work_ with show()?  I would
> > expect it to fail.  I would rather have it fail everywhere or work
> > everywhere.
> >
> > Ben Root
> >
> >
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I came upon this thread after a lot of time messing with savefig. I was 
trying to get images in some vector format and was specifying linewidth as a 
string. Thanks to this thread, I have my images. However, some things I 
noticed were:
(1) This error message only appeared when I tried to save as eps; not for 
pdf (my preference) or svg.
(2) Shouldn't the exception or warning be raised when the plot call is made 
(for me it was bar(...)) ?
(3) using pdf and svg with savefig raised no error. However, the resulting 
images were corrupted. Weirdly, in the case of pdf, the only pdf reader I 
tried not able to render the image correctly was adobe acrobat. Even the 
browser plugin for adobe could do it. In the case of svg, I opened the image 
in imagemagick but it did not look much like it should have.