Thread: [Matplotlib-users] Add a printer button to the navigation toolbar

Hi all,

I have filed a ticket for adding a printer button to the 
navigation toolbar.
https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/670
I am interested in a wider response.

Any further comments ?

Nils

  

On Monday, January 16, 2012, Nils Wagner <nw...@ia...>
wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have filed a ticket for adding a printer button to the
> navigation toolbar.
> https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/670
> I am interested in a wider response.
>
> Any further comments ?
>
> Nils
>
>

Adding a button is easy... Adding cross-platform printer capability is not.
 The only way I envision it could happen is if the GUI toolkits have some
sort of printing API.  We already can convert to postscript.

Ben Root

On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 08:18:03 -0600
  Benjamin Root <ben...@ou...> wrote:
> On Monday, January 16, 2012, Nils Wagner 
><nw...@ia...>
> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have filed a ticket for adding a printer button to the
>> navigation toolbar.
>> https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/670
>> I am interested in a wider response.
>>
>> Any further comments ?
>>
>> Nils
>>
>>
> 
> Adding a button is easy... Adding cross-platform printer 
>capability is not.
> The only way I envision it could happen is if the GUI 
>toolkits have some
> sort of printing API.  We already can convert to 
>postscript.
> 
> Ben Root

A customization of the navigation toolbar is possible. I 
have used the qt4 backend.
However the quality of the print-out is poor using 
QPrinter. Moreover the frame including the navigation 
toolbar is printed.
How can I omit that ?

How can I improve the quality of the hardcopy.
I have attached the program.

Any hint would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

  Nils