On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 1:04 PM, Chuck Pepe-Ranney<cpep...@mines.edu> wrote: > Does anybody have a good method for preserving quality and transparancy of > eps images when going from matplotlib to latex to pdf? I can only preserve > the transparency if I save as png and then convert to eps but then I lose > quality. If I save as eps directly, all my patches are opaque despite the > alpha values.
The postscript format does not support transparency. This is not a matplotlib limitation but a postscript limitation. The best solution is to save your matplotlib figures as pdf, which is also a vector format but which does support transparency, and then use pdflatex JDH ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
