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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"native format for figures","articleBody":"[Original report at SourceForge, opened Wed Feb  4 17:55:56 2009](https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail\u0026aid=2565759\u0026group_id=80706\u0026atid=560723)\n\nIn Matlab we have ability to save figures to .fig format. Gnuplot also has same ability cause save figures as scripts and data. It allows us:\n1. To reopen figure for light editing without program execution.\n2. To retrieve points data for curves for editing.\n3. To copy curves from one figure to another. It is really great!!!\n\nE-mail: kkott00@gmail.com\n### SourceForge Comments\n#### On Fri Apr 23 05:23:50 2010, nobody wrote:\n\nSeconding! The ability to easily pickle or otherwise save \u0026 reload both data and figure configuration is lacking terribly. Lots of figures have to be altered later on for publication, presentation etc. Currently the full python code for loading the data and creating the figure has to be kept -- /very/ old-fashioned, I'd say.\n#### On Sun Jun  7 09:37:49 2009, jdh2358 wrote:\n\nThis would indeed be a great feature.  We have experimented with it in the past trying to pickle matplotlib figures, but have encountered problems with pickling CXX extension code, on which mpl relies heavily.  \n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/ddale","@type":"Person","name":"ddale"},"datePublished":"2011-06-20T21:19:07.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":4},"url":"https://github.com/323/matplotlib/issues/323"}