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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Feature request: TIFF LZW compression support in savefig()","articleBody":"MPL is such a great tool I tend to use it in many projects. Although amazing in so many ways, one area of improvement is the support for compression for TIFF images. Compression works when saving to other formats but it does not work with TIFF format. Note that TIFF is the format most scientific journal prefer for figures. MPL is great at so many things, I think embedding an LZW compression algorithm would be great. Currently we have to resort to PIL or PILLOW and do this: \r\n\r\n1. create the image with MPL\r\n2. save to tiff, uncompressed -- easily 500MB\r\n3. load PIL library\r\n4. load the 500MB image with PIL\r\n5. re-save the image in PIL using the flag compression=LZW.\r\n\r\nIf we could spare steps 3-5 it would be great I think...\r\n\r\nThanks!!!","author":{"url":"https://github.com/renato-umeton","@type":"Person","name":"renato-umeton"},"datePublished":"2017-04-24T16:28:02.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":2},"url":"https://github.com/8530/matplotlib/issues/8530"}