[FIXED] jupyter notebook inline plots as svg

Issue

By default jupyter notebook inline plots are displayed as png, e.g.:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
%matplotlib inline
plt.plot()

How can you configure jupyter notebooks to display matplotlib inline plots as svg?

Solution

%config InlineBackend.figure_formats = ['svg'] does the trick. A minimal example is:

%config InlineBackend.figure_formats = ['svg']

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
%matplotlib inline
plt.plot()

Answered By - Fabian Rost