Hi Sam, On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 09:35, sam tygier <sam...@ya...> wrote: > I think this topic has come up before, but i don't think anything has > resulted from it. > > I'd like a way for saving a plot from from matplotlib, so that it can be > re-rendered later, possibly with a different backend, maybe to a different > size, and maybe with changes to the labels. This would save me having to > rerun the simulation that generated the plot. > > Ideally this would work by having a save_plot() function, that would save > all state of the current plot into a file. This could then be loaded by a > program to regenerate that plot. Can't this be achieved by pickling/unpickling the mpl objects? Didn't manage to test it, but it should work. Of course, it might fall in uncompatibility from source (pickling) environment and the destination (unpickling) one. Regards, -- Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu) My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/ Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi