Peter I. Hansen wrote: > On Nov 30, 2007 4:58 PM, Michael Droettboom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Peter I. Hansen wrote: >>> Hi >>> >>> I'm typestting some graphs including a few axvspan's with eg. a >>> facecolor='0.6' . This looks very nice if I output a PNG, but when I >>> inculde this in my TeX document the axis labels dosn't scale. Then I >>> try to go the postscript way, and the the labels scale nicely but the >>> colored fields of axvspan prints as a coarse raster color. >> I assume you mean that the axvspan prints as a solid color, rather than >> semi-transparent (alpha-blended). That is an unfortunate limitation of >> the Postscript format -- it can not handle transparency. > > Yes, I'm using a solid color. > >>> Is there a best way of optimizing print quality? >> Each of the output formats has a number of different limitations -- it >> depends a lot on what you're rendering and where you need it to go. >> >> You could try saving as a PDF, and then using pdftex to generate your >> document, if that's an option for you. > > Unfortunately, saving directly as PDF does not work on my (Debian) > system. It gives a "NotImplementedError". I'm using version 0.90.1, > and maybe this will change for 0.91 .
Can you please send the full traceback that accompanies this error? PDF should be working is general, but perhaps you are running into a specific feature of the PDF backend that is not working, and there may be a workaround (or 0.91 may work)... Cheers, Mike -- Michael Droettboom Science Software Branch Operations and Engineering Division Space Telescope Science Institute Operated by AURA for NASA ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: The Future of Linux Business White Paper from Novell. From the desktop to the data center, Linux is going mainstream. Let it simplify your IT future. http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/8857-50307-18918-4 _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
