Have iplot return static image format of the plotly plot

[ellisonbg]

The iplot function produces an HTML representation of a plotly plot for usage in the IPython notebook. IPython also supports converting notebooks to LaTeX/PDF documents through IPython.nbconvert. To get this to work, iplot would have to also display a static image format of the plot. It would be as simply as a call to display(Image(raw_image_data)) to include that in the notebook.

We (IPython dev team) is super excited about plotly and are more than willing to answer questions, etc. about the IPython integration.

[jackparmer]

Awesome! Thanks! Nice to e-meet you. We're psyched to meet Fernando + team in Feb. IPython has been an wonderful way for communicating / teaching API tidbits to users, plus a lot of fun!

We're looking into adding image conversion to Plotly's API, so one could swap out the interactive iframe for a static image (svg, pdf, png, or eps), then they could use nbconvert. We would love to be able to export our notebooks with plotly graphs into pdf or latex - We'll certainly be in touch if we have questions or make headway!

[chriddyp]

Thanks so much for the suggestion! We finally got around to this, fixed in #107

$ ipython nbconvert mynotebook.ipynb --to latex --post PDF

Here is the notebook: http://nbviewer.ipython.org/gist/chriddyp/32a4ed87825346cb233c
And here is the resulting PDF: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8yfcydpsVhhZDFtd1l0Z2pIeXM/edit?usp=sharing

[calumroy]

I seem to be having problems with this. Your example didn't work for me the pdf showed
<plotly.tools.PlotlyDisplay object> instead of the plot in the output pdf.

I am running OSX el captain 10.11.2.
I ran the command with the option --to pdf as the option --to latex --post PDF didn't work it returned No module named PDF.

ipython nbconvert test_to_pdf.ipynb --to pdf
[NbConvertApp] Converting notebook test_to_pdf.ipynb to pdf
[NbConvertApp] Writing 19096 bytes to notebook.tex
[NbConvertApp] Building PDF
[NbConvertApp] Running pdflatex 3 times: [u'pdflatex', u'notebook.tex']
[NbConvertApp] PDF successfully created
[NbConvertApp] Writing 46214 bytes to test_to_pdf.pdf

[FayeL37]

It seems the PDF version doesn't show the plotly graph. @chriddyp

[FayeL37]

When I type display(Image(raw_image_data)) into Jupyter Notebook, there is an error rising and saying Image is not defined. Any suggestion? Thanks @ellisonbg