Re: [Matplotlib-users] pdf saving on OS X

On Jul 26, 2007, at Jul 26:4:49 PM, Jouni K. Sepp=E4nen wrote:

> Brian Blais <bb...@br...> writes:
>
>> and it works with pylab.  But, if I use matplotlib.Figure directly in
>> an app, and then call:
>> myfig.savefig('blah.pdf')  it saves it as 'blah.pdf.jpg', a jpeg =20
>> file.
>
> Sounds like you are using a backend other than the pdf one. Can you
> write up a complete example of code that behaves like you describe?
>

This is the smallest example I can write.  I am embedding the figure =20
in a wx window.  In this test case, I print (successfully) a PNG and =20
EPS, but the PDF doesn't work (gets a .jpg attached to the end).


			bb

--=20
Brian Blais
bb...@br...
http://web.bryant.edu/~bblais




#!/usr/bin/env python
import wx
from matplotlib.backends.backend_wxagg import FigureCanvasWx as =20
FigureCanvas
from matplotlib.figure import Figure

class MainWindow(wx.Frame):
     """ We simply derive a new class of Frame. """
     def __init__(self, parent, id, title):
         wx.Frame.__init__(self, parent, id, title, size=3D(400,400))

         fig =3D Figure()
         canvas =3D FigureCanvas(self,-1, fig)

         ax=3Dfig.add_subplot(111)

         ax.plot([1,2,3,4],'o')

         canvas.draw()


         self.Show(True)

         fig.savefig('blah.eps')
         fig.savefig('blah.png')
         fig.savefig('blah.pdf')

app =3D wx.PySimpleApp()
frame=3DMainWindow(None, wx.ID_ANY, 'Test')
app.MainLoop()