Bug: Offline Static Image Export

[keithjjones]

https://plot.ly/python/offline/#static-image-export

This doesn't work. You still have to open the html file to get the image. Clicking on the "Save As" camera button produces a better picture (not skewed) if you are going to open the HTML file to get an image.

[cldougl]

@keithjjones this example is working for me. This functionality was added in version 1.12.2
https://github.com/plotly/plotly.py/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#added-3

Please confirm you're using an updated version of our python package and if you're still having the issue perhaps let us know what version of python you're using / include the code that is not working for you.

[keithjjones]

My version:

>>> from plotly import __version__
>>> print(__version__)
1.12.9

and Python:

Python 3.5.2 (default, Oct 11 2016, 05:05:28) 
[GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 8.0.0 (clang-800.0.38)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

I'm using the exact command line in that page, except I'm using Python and not iPython. I either have to auto_open=True and save the image or double click on the html file and save the image.

[cldougl]

Yes that example using plot() is for python. You should use iplot() if you're using ipython. Are you receiving an error?

[keithjjones]

I'm using pure python. It's the offline.plot function that I'm using.

No errors. It generates the html file fine. When I open the HTML file it then asks if I want to save the image. I don't want to open the HTML file to get an image, or I could just click on the "Save As PNG" and that render tends to look much better.

It works this way on Windows 7 and Mac for me.

[keithjjones]

That example includes:

offline.init_notebook_mode()

That can only be run inside iPython. But the plot is using "plot".

[cldougl]

I see, you're trying to generate the graph without opening the html file. Thanks for letting us know about the issue in the example, I've updated the documentation to reflect that you must open the file. It looks like this feature was added with the intention of opening the plot to save the image.

[keithjjones]

Ok thanks.

[cldougl]

Hey @keithjjones - the documentation has been updated to note this method. We've recently removed the alert when downloading offline images (v 1.12.10) but have decided to keep the plot() call the same, i.e. you must open the plot in order to download the image. I'm going to close this issue since it's not a bug. You can always open a feature request issue if you feel the image should be downloaded without opening the plot (though that's not in our current plan just at this time). Thanks again for noting the documentation issue!

[keithjjones]

@cldougl is there a way to open a feature request issue that is different than Github issues? I do not understand.

[jonmmease]

Update: Programmatic static image export support has been released in 3.2.0: See https://medium.com/@plotlygraphs/plotly-py-end-of-summer-updates-5422c98b9058