png is supported which is lossless and compresses very well unless your plotting photos. You can convert these to jpg later with e.g. the convert command from imagemagick.
I have 0.10.2 in my ppa: https://launchpad.net/~jtaylor/+archive/ipython but it may get replaced by 0.11 soon. which will introduce many new bugs so you may want to pin the version -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/777420 Title: show() blocks in pylab mode with ipython 0.10.1 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs