From 1c5d748857a02d000b7e6dfcd66d321937898147 2016-03-06 12:48:08
From: Min RK <benjaminrk@gmail.com>
Date: 2016-03-06 12:48:08
Subject: [PATCH] Backport PR #9299: FIX: account for dpi == 'figure'

In mpl 1.5.0 'figure' became a valid dpi value, in 2.0 it will
become the default.

xref https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/6113

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diff --git a/IPython/core/pylabtools.py b/IPython/core/pylabtools.py
index 687486c..136f39e 100644
--- a/IPython/core/pylabtools.py
+++ b/IPython/core/pylabtools.py
@@ -98,6 +98,8 @@ def print_figure(fig, fmt='png', bbox_inches='tight', **kwargs):
         return
 
     dpi = rcParams['savefig.dpi']
+    if dpi == 'figure':
+        dpi = fig.dpi
     if fmt == 'retina':
         dpi = dpi * 2
         fmt = 'png'