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FYI I don't know what the current state of affairs was but I
looked into this a little bit about 5 or so years ago. Adobe has
a spec for what the preview image in an EPS file is suppose to be
(I can't remember the details on what it is but you can google
for the EPS spec) but I don't think anyone really followed it. 
On Mac's, everything produced a PICT image and on Windows
everything produced something else (I forget exactly what it
was). In short, at the time I checked it out, it was very
difficult to make a high quality preview image that would work
well on a Mac and a Windows box. 
It would be nice if things were different now. We do a lot of
plotting that ends up in presentations and it would be nice if
you could embed an EPS in the presentation with a high quality
preview.
Ted
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>Date: 28-sep-2006 14:04:55 -0700
>From: "Christian Meesters" <mee...@un...>
>To: <mat...@li...>
>Subject: Re: [Matplotlib-users] eps file format
>
>> As for the preview header, I suspect there arte 3rd part tools
that
>> can do this (ImageMagick?). We should be able to do it
ourself with
>> agg, but it would require someone to dig in and figure out the
spec.
>>
>> JDH
>One last remark on this: Since so many journals demand this,
would it be worth 
>a feature request? (I don't have the time nor the skills to work
on this.) 
>One may think of this as one wishes (don't like these publishing
companies 
>and their demands, either), but matplotlib wants to enable its
users to 
>produce figures ready for publication, right?
>
>Christian 
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> I'm sure someone will soon provide you with an insightful answer. In
> the meantime, you can fudge it by doing
>
> plot(x,y,'o',markerfacecolor='w')
And this is not an "insightful answer"? Anyway, thanks a lot!
Christian (who was to tired to look at the right place ...)

On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 08:24:44PM +0200, Christian Meesters wrote:
> I'd like to plot experimental data points with fitted data through it. =
This=20
> time best would be to plot hollow circles for the experimental data. Pr=
etty=20
> much like literal 'o's (except, of course, that passing 'o' results in =
thick=20
> circles).
> Is this possible somehow?
I'm sure someone will soon provide you with an insightful answer. In
the meantime, you can fudge it by doing
plot(x,y,'o',markerfacecolor=3D'w')
plot(x,y)
Regards
St=E9fan

> As for the preview header, I suspect there arte 3rd part tools that
> can do this (ImageMagick?). We should be able to do it ourself with
> agg, but it would require someone to dig in and figure out the spec.
>
> JDH
One last remark on this: Since so many journals demand this, would it be worth 
a feature request? (I don't have the time nor the skills to work on this.) 
One may think of this as one wishes (don't like these publishing companies 
and their demands, either), but matplotlib wants to enable its users to 
produce figures ready for publication, right?
Christian 

Hi,
I'd like to plot experimental data points with fitted data through it. This 
time best would be to plot hollow circles for the experimental data. Pretty 
much like literal 'o's (except, of course, that passing 'o' results in thick 
circles).
Is this possible somehow?
TIA
Christian

Thanks, John and Alan,
That was fast!
> As for the fonts, yes, you can control this with rc.
Sure, but what about the latex rendered parts? (I wonder whether it actually 
matters, but I'd like to be sure, because there so little time left ...)
> On 2006年9月28日, Christian Meesters apparently wrote:
> > - it should include a 8bit preview/header at a resolution of 72dpi - no
> > idea how to generate this
>
> I think you can use
> http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gsview/epstool.htm
> but do not know what dpi control you'll have.
It works, thanks. The installation is easy. Setting the resolution in dpi can 
be done by giving the flag --dpi <resolution>. 
Cheers
Christian

On 2006年9月28日, Christian Meesters apparently wrote: 
> - it should include a 8bit preview/header at a resolution of 72dpi - no idea 
> how to generate this 
I think you can use
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gsview/epstool.htm
but do not know what dpi control you'll have.
hth,
Alan Isaac

>>>>> "Christian" == Christian Meesters <mee...@un...> writes:
 Christian> Hi, I'd like to write a paper with figures in eps
 Christian> format. Since the paper is for one of Elseviers
 Christian> journals the eps-figures have to meet the following
 Christian> requirements: - all colors have to be in the rgb color
 Christian> space - this seems to be true for the files I generate.
 Christian> - it should include a 8bit preview/header at a
 Christian> resolution of 72dpi - no idea how to generate this -
 Christian> allowed fonts are: Arial, Courier, Helvetica, Times,
 Christian> Symbol - this is something I can set in the rc file,
 Christian> although I have no idea what is true in latex rendered
 Christian> parts
 Christian> Can somebody tell me please, whether matplotlib indeed
 Christian> creates colors in the rgb color space and answer the
 Christian> other two questions, too? Would be really great ...
Yes, it does use the RGB colorspace, but we would like to support
other colorspaces too.
As for the fonts, yes, you can control this with rc.
As for the preview header, I suspect there arte 3rd part tools that
can do this (ImageMagick?). We should be able to do it ourself with
agg, but it would require someone to dig in and figure out the spec.
JDH

Hi,
I'd like to write a paper with figures in eps format. Since the paper is for 
one of Elseviers journals the eps-figures have to meet the following 
requirements:
- all colors have to be in the rgb color space - this seems to be true for the 
files I generate.
- it should include a 8bit preview/header at a resolution of 72dpi - no idea 
how to generate this
- allowed fonts are: Arial, Courier, Helvetica, Times, Symbol - this is 
something I can set in the rc file, although I have no idea what is true in 
latex rendered parts
Can somebody tell me please, whether matplotlib indeed creates colors in the 
rgb color space and answer the other two questions, too? Would be really 
great ...
TIA
Christian

Attached is an updated version which does close.
I move the timer code and added and EVT_CLOSE which stops the timer and 
now it closes correctly.
Werner

Hi, All,
 
I am doing some plotting and I want to do some format change to my tick.
Here is what I want:
 
Origin ticks: 0.0 1.0 2.0 3.0
4.0 5.0
Ticks I want: 0.0mV 1000mv 2000mV 3000mV 4000mV 5000mV
 
Just showing the ticks in an easier-read way. Because I don't want so see
anything like 1.2345e-2, I want to see 12.345mV.
 
Thanks very much..
 
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