Automatically choose the output format optimal for rendering in browser. #251

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1. Carreau commented on Jul 14, 2017

   

   Carreau

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   I'm unsure what your question/suggestion is. If an object has an SVG representation it is sent to the frontend. There is no need to make it "default".
2. KOLANICH commented on Jul 15, 2017

   

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   I mean that every my notebook I have to start with

   %config InlineBackend.figure_format = 'svg'

   I wonder why matplotlib output is not set by default to svg in jupyter notebook setting taking in accounts the facts that jupyter notebook uses web browsers for GUI, all modern web browsers support svg and svg is a vector format, which is good for drawing curves and schemas, such as matplotlib plots.
3. takluyver commented on Jul 15, 2017

   

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   SVG tends to get horrible when you have very large numbers of elements, IIRC. E.g. mpl can handle a scatter plot of millions of points, but nobody wants the result as an SVG.
4. KOLANICH commented on Jul 15, 2017

   

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   I guess then it'll require some heuristics and matplotlib monkey-patching to choose the optimal format automatically then.
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   closed this as completedon Jul 15, 2017
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   reopened this on Jul 15, 2017
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   changed the title [-]Make svg a default output format[/-] [+]Automatically choose the output format optimal for rendering in browser.[/+] on Jul 15, 2017
8. takluyver commented on Jul 16, 2017

   

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   I don't think this is something where the tools should try to be 'smart'. Simplicity and predictability are good things too. :-)
9. Carreau

   added this to the wishlist milestone on Jul 19, 2017