Re: [matplotlib-devel] svg rasterization dpi patch

On 2012/08/26 5:50 AM, Michael Welter wrote:
> Hello,
>
> i made a patch which would allow the svg backend to make
> rasterized plots according to the dpi given in savefig.
> I wanted this in order to have high-res scatter plots.
> As you probably know it is hardcoded to 72 dpi right now.
> The idea how to, came from the pdf backend. I mostly
> copy pasted some code.
>
> I also added a test for it. Some other tests now fail
> the image comparison. It is nothing serious apparently.
> Probably roundoff errors. Except interp_nearest_vs_none.
> The result of which looks now exactly like the pdf which
> it did not before.
>
> Also, two other minor changes which i needed
>
> - Compare_images failed for older numy versions. Simple fix ...
> - A numpy.float32 variable got passed to the pdfRepr function in
> backend_pdf.py. I changed this function to accept this type, too.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Michael

Michael,

Thank you, this sounds good.  Although we can deal with it as a patch if 
necessary, it would be greatly preferable to see it as a github PR:
http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/devel/gitwash/git_development.html#git-development

Are you willing to give that a try?

Eric