Include output from %matplotlib notebook backend as SVG in ipynb

Question

This answer from a few years ago shows how you can make jupyter notebook create graphs as svg. The solution is to tell the InlineBackend to use svg as output.

Answer 1

Since apparently even after a bounty period noone was able to provide a solution, a workaround may be the following.

1. Create you notebook with %matplotlib notebook. Once you're satisfied with the result, save it.

2. Use a copy of it and replace %matplotlib notebook with

   %matplotlib inline
   %config InlineBackend.figure_format = 'svg'
   

   Rerun the complete notebook. Save the result.

3. Open the resulting ipynb file in a text editor and replace the previous two lines again with %matplotlib notebook.

The final result will be a ipynb with svg images. But once opened and run, it will use the notebook backend for figure creation.