Allow resizing figures in notebook

[szhorvat]

This is a feature request.

matplotlib figures are interactive when using the default backend. If would be useful have have at least the resizing functionality in the notebook interface.

It would be nice to have resizeable figures in the notebook interface, at least in the cases where it's easy to implement (is it possible to do it e.g. for SVG output only?)

[ellisonbg]

I think this is something we can do.

[cschin]

I am wondering whether we should look into how to integrate the matplotlib HMTL5 canvas backend http://code.google.com/p/mplh5canvas/

[Sharpie]

The mplh5canvas features list doesn't look too encouraging:

Firefox is not supported and Internet Explorer will never be supported.

Ouch.

[cschin]

I think they use websocket for frontend/backend communication. If we can replace that with ipython's one... , I can help to take a look some time in the furture

[mcelrath]

See #1881 for improving/switching to SVG matplotlib output.

Scaling SVG plots holding the aspect ratio fixed is possible now just using CSS. Changing the aspect ratio requires requesting matplotlib to re-plot. Zooming or panning (as is possible in the matplotlib gtk/qt interface) is not currently possible, and would require writing a new backend along the lines of mplh5canvas.

[ellisonbg]

We can do zooming and panning with the current inline backend and a JavaScript widget that uses our display system. It shouldn't be too bad actually.

[SylvainCorlay]

Hi,
I am coming back on this old issue as mplh5canvas is mentioned.
Is there any plan in the future to either

• integrate the matplotlib html5 backend with the notebook,
• integrate the matplotlib qt backend with the qt console
  for inline plots, rather than only relying on the static png images?

Best,
Sylvain

[Carreau]

1. yes in a more general way, enable js<>kerel (didn't say python) communications
2. No.

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Le 16 sept. 2013 à 21:05, Sylvain Corlay notifications@github.com a écrit :

Hi,
I am coming back on this old issue as mplh5canvas is mentioned.
Is there any plan in the future to either

integrate the matplotlib html5 backend with the notebook,
integrate the matplotlib qt backend with the qt console for inline plots, rather than only relying on the static png images?
Best,
Sylvain

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[SylvainCorlay]

1. I saw (and tried) the pull request 4195, but the example relies on an other js plotting library rather than leveraging matplotlib with a potential html/js backend.
2. Too bad!

[damianavila]

In current master, the figure are resizeable inside the notebook, so probably we can close this one...

[startakovsky]

@damianavila Is this still true? Running IPython Notebook 3.0.1 here..... Vanilla install. Ubuntu.

This is not resizable from the notebook:

from IPython.core.display import Image
Image('http://www.cliffsofmoher.ie/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/sept242013paki.png')

[damianavila]

@damianavila Is this still true?

I don't think so... IIRC, there was some problem with the re sizing and we defined to have no resizable figures... let me find the issues/PRs... OK here: #8098 and here: #8062

[startakovsky]

@damianavila Thanks.