Re: [matplotlib-devel] New non-interactive backend: produces .emf files

[Ted D. <ted...@jp...>]

Rob,
I think you may have just implemented/discovered/unearthed the Holy 
Grail!  This looks fantastic.  We have been fighting with EPS files for 
years and trying to come up with a way to have plots that can be embedded 
in Office documents that look good on the screen for presentations and 
still print well.

The EPS preview image has never worked very well and the resulting files 
almost always had problems when moved from MS Office on the PC to/from the 
Mac.  If your system works well across platforms, that could save the 
engineers here a lot of time.

We'll have to download this and give it a try.  Thanks!
Ted

At 06:03 PM 11/19/2005, Rob McMullen wrote:
>I just submitted a patch to add a new non-interactive backend that
>produces enhanced metafiles, an OpenOffice and Microsoft Windows
>scalable graphics format that can also be embedded in .rtf files.
>
>http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1361839&group_id=80706&atid=560722
>
>The backend is based on my pyemf package that I finally released with
>its first public beta:
>
>http://pyemf.sourceforge.net
>
>The API should be stable -- I'm only planning on adding to it and not
>changing any existing method signatures in the version 2.0.* series.
>
>Oh, and I didn't say so in the patch itself, but I'm happy to donate
>the patch to matplotlib under the default matplotlib license.
>
>Rob
>
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