EMF backend does not support bitmaps

[ddale]

Original report at SourceForge, opened Tue Dec 1 04:36:06 2009

I make colormap plots with matplotlib using pcolorfast. The plot region then gets rasterized, which is necessary as the files get very large, and slow to handle if the plot region saved as vector data.

Unfortunatly the emf backend does not support the inclusion of bitmaps. As emf/wmf files are the only vector format currently supported in openoffice (svg import hardly works for graphs like this (see http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/SVG_User_Experiences#SVGs_from_Matplotlib:_Text_totally_displaced ) this is an important issue.

To my knowledge there exists no convertor (under Linux) which can convert svg to emf/wmf with support for included bitmaps.

I enclose the converted emf file, you can see the original file under the link above.

SourceForge History

• On Tue Dec 1 04:36:06 2009, by nobody: File Added: 353344: 193_5.emf

[mdboom]

Note that SVG files import fine into OpenOffice 3 when "svg.embed_char_paths" is set to False or "svg.fonttype" is set to "none". The bug linked at the wiki is invalid.

Shortcoming of EMF backend still stands.

[efiring]

EMF backend is gone.