Thanks, I guess my problem is that I am using the latex prosper package to
make presentation slides but I cannot compile prosper documents with
pdflatex (see here <http://www.nefkom.net/georg.drenkhahn/prosper/>).
Sorry, I see that this is not a matplotlib specific question so I will try
to find a solution somewhere else.
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 12:10 PM, John Hunter <jdh2...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>
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