Plotting in batch with no display

[Giacomo Boffi]

Giacomo Boffi <giacomo.boffi at polimi.it> writes:

> Hans Georg Schaathun <H.Schaathun at surrey.ac.uk> writes:
>
>> :      import matplotlib
>> :      matplotlib.use('agg')
>> :      import pylab
>> :      pylab.plot([1, 3, 5])
>> :      fig = file('foo.png', 'wb')
>> :      pylab.savefig(fig, format='png')
>> :      fig.close()
>>
>> Raster graphics is not good enough
>
> #ig = file('foo.png', 'wb'
> pylab.savefig('foo.png', format='pdf')
>
> that's all

either

matplotlib.use('cairo.pdf')
...
pylab.savefig('foo.pdf')

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