Re: [Matplotlib-users] PS and imshow

2007-08-31 Thread Petr Danecek
OK, I've got it. Previously, I checked the quality of the output image by two means: by visual inspection in gv and by checking the size of the output eps images. I was puzzled by the different sizes of the images at magnification 1. Also, convert produces much larger eps files. When the size

Re: [Matplotlib-users] PS and imshow

2007-08-30 Thread Petr Danecek
In fact, the dpi option does change the resulting PS file, but the quality is still very poor - see the example http://www.ucl.cas.cz/~petr/matplotlib-test.tgz pd On Fri, 2007-08-24 at 20:03, Jouni K. Seppänen wrote: I just tried with current svn, and the following script produces two

Re: [Matplotlib-users] PS and imshow

2007-08-30 Thread Jouni K . Seppänen
Petr Danecek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, 2007-08-24 at 20:03, Jouni K. Seppänen wrote: savefig('foo10.ps', dpi=10) savefig('foo100.ps', dpi=100) In fact, the dpi option does change the resulting PS file, but the quality is still very poor - see the example

Re: [Matplotlib-users] PS and imshow

2007-08-24 Thread Christopher Barker
Petr Danecek wrote: Hi, I'd like to open a high-quality image (600dpi) in matplotlib, add some plots and save it as a postscript file. It seems that whatever I do, the input image gets scaled down :-( I'm sorry I don't know enough about MPL's handling of images to help, but... Looking in

Re: [Matplotlib-users] PS and imshow

2007-08-24 Thread John Hunter
On 8/24/07, Christopher Barker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This may not be what it seems. The native coordinate system for PostScript is in points, which are 1/72 if an inch, so it's common to force that as a dpi. Postscript supports fractional (is it floating point or fixed -- I'm not sure)

Re: [Matplotlib-users] PS and imshow

2007-08-24 Thread Jouni K . Seppänen
John Hunter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 8/24/07, Christopher Barker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This may not be what it seems. The native coordinate system for PostScript is in points, which are 1/72 if an inch, so it's common to force that as a dpi. [...] Yes, this is exactly right and the