On Monday 31 July 2006 09:32, JIM MacDonald wrote: > > I'll look into this soon. I'm hesitant to add another rc option, maybe we > > can consider using these settings as the defaults. I'll post again after > > I have had a chance to play with it. > > Defaulting to lossless FlateEncode compression seems like a good idea, > if the file is too big you can always run another distill cycle after > wards manually. > > Another possibility would be to set the option based on the format of > the image loaded (I'm sure I read somewhere that it is planned to > support formats other than PNG). ie FlateEncode for GIF's and PNG's > and DCTEncode for JPEG's.
[...] > Sure, > http://jimmacdonald.co.uk/matplotlib/image.png > http://jimmacdonald.co.uk/matplotlib/image.eps > http://jimmacdonald.co.uk/matplotlib/image.py > > image.py generates image.eps from image.png. image.png is simple > enough for ps2pdf not to use DCT encoding. Looking at the postscript > shows that the image has resolution of 335x230 compared to the > original of 318x301. Would you post an example where the ps2pdf flags make a big difference on the output? I just tried with the above png, but I cant tell the difference between the results with/without the new flags. Darren ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
