Hey Chris,

I had a similar problem. I saved the transparent objects, so the polygons in your case, as a high-resolution png and the axes, dots, lines, text objects and everything else to an eps. Finally, I just layed them on top of each other in Illustrator and saved as eps, which produced a decent result. But this was only a work-around as well. They might be better options...

Cheers
Florian

Am 23.08.2013 00:55, schrieb Chris Beaumont:
Hi,

I have a semitransparent plot that I rather like:

Inline image 1
I'd like to publish something like this in a journal which requires EPS figures. Unfortunately, EPS doesn't support transparency. 

How hard would it be to coax matplotlib (or another tool) to convert this semi-transparent figure into a non-semitransparent figure that looks the same? It would consist of more polygons, each of which has a constant RGB value in the transparent figure.

I don't want to rasterize the lines, because I like zooming absurdly far into plots, and having them stay crisp.

Cheers,
Chris


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