Thread: [Matplotlib-users] Output to any vector format openoffice can use

I am searching a way, so that I can insert my matplotlib graphs as vector
data in openoffice. I make colormaps using pcolorfast. If I save the figure
as emf, the colormap inside the axes vanishes, because the normal emf
backend cannot include rasterized data. Is there any way (e.g. using a
different backend) which gives emf/wmf files which contain the rasterized
data?

Is there a convertor from svg to emf which can do the trick? (I tried
uniconvertor but it also looses the rasterized data). I tried to insert
svg/eps/pdf files into openoffice, but the results are less than promising
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Inkscape's native format is svg and it exports in .odg, which OO should be
able to use.  I did a test combining a svg vector and png raster and then
saving as .odg, and it wrote the file.  But I don't have OO so I can't try
to import the result.

regards,
Gary B


marcusantonius wrote:
> 
> I am searching a way, so that I can insert my matplotlib graphs as vector
> data in openoffice. I make colormaps using pcolorfast. If I save the
> figure as emf, the colormap inside the axes vanishes, because the normal
> emf backend cannot include rasterized data. Is there any way (e.g. using a
> different backend) which gives emf/wmf files which contain the rasterized
> data?
> 
> Is there a convertor from svg to emf which can do the trick? (I tried
> uniconvertor but it also looses the rasterized data). I tried to insert
> svg/eps/pdf files into openoffice, but the results are less than promising
> 

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Thak you very much for pointing this out to me. I was not aware that Inkscape
is able to output to .odg. Unfortunatly export into .odg works badly. I
converted .svg files, and both were rendered totally incorrect. All the axes
labels vanished, in a lineplot it connected the end of the line to the
origin, leading to a diagonal line which should not be there, and the
rasterized image included by pcolorfast was also not included. Therefore I
fear that exporting into .odg is not a usable alternative. 
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