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Headless mode?

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Anthony
Anthony

In addition to creating plots for display in the browser, I also need to generate plots in batch on the server in PNG format so they can be inserted into a PowerPoint document (which will also be generated programmatically on the server). Is Bokeh able to directly generate PNG plots on the server – something like the Vega.js headless mode?

Thanks.

Anthony

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Mateusz_Paprocki
Mateusz_Paprocki

Hi,

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On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 7:46 PM, abastardi@gmail.com wrote:

In addition to creating plots for display in the browser, I also need to generate plots in batch on the server in PNG format so they can be inserted into a PowerPoint document (which will also be generated programmatically on the server). Is Bokeh able to directly generate PNG plots on the server – something like the Vega.js headless mode?

Currently it’s only possible to render plots in a web browser, but in 0.5 release (next week) we should be able to generate plots directly from Python with PNGFileSession (this will use a headless browser behind the scenes).

Thanks.

Anthony

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Anthony
Anthony

Thanks. Looking forward to it.

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On Thursday, March 27, 2014 4:17:19 PM UTC-4, Mateusz Paprocki wrote:

Hi,

On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 7:46 PM, abas...@gmail.com wrote:

In addition to creating plots for display in the browser, I also need to generate plots in batch on the server in PNG format so they can be inserted into a PowerPoint document (which will also be generated programmatically on the server). Is Bokeh able to directly generate PNG plots on the server – something like the Vega.js headless mode?

Currently it’s only possible to render plots in a web browser, but in 0.5 release (next week) we should be able to generate plots directly from Python with PNGFileSession (this will use a headless browser behind the scenes).

Thanks.

Anthony

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