Hi Aurélien, good that it works.
You can try out how much impact the sampling density has. Best regards Christian Am 30.11.2012 23:56, schrieb aurelien coillet: > Hi Christian, > > Thanks, that works indeed! I should have tried a little bit harder, I > suppose. > > Regarding this huge number of points, it is actually needed: my data > consists in thousands of lines of various amplitude, and I want to be > able to distinguish one of these lines from its neighbour as well as > comprehend the global variation in amplitude. However, you're right > that it may be a pain for the user, and I will consider using an image > instead. Actually, that was my workaround, but I was not satisfied > with this. > > So thanks for your help and comments. > > Best regards, > > Aurélien > > > 2012/11/30 Christian Feuersaenger <cfeuersaen...@googlemail.com > <mailto:cfeuersaen...@googlemail.com>> > > Hi Aurélien, > > that is very strange, indeed. I can reproduce the problem with a file > named "Sinus" (without extension): lualatex fails whereas pdflatex > works. > > Seems as if they have different path resolution algorithms. > > However, it worked as soon as I introduced a file suffix: both > lualatex > and pdflatex find "Sinus.dat" . > > My suggestion is to go along that path. > > However, I would like to point out that 78000 points might be > essentially overkill - and I am not talking about the time that > pgfplots > takes (be it lualatex or pdflatex). If you have 78000 points, you blow > up the size of your .pdf file. In addition, displaying it will > take some > time. And: the user might not benefit at all unless you really > have high > frequencies! Are you sure that you need such a sampling density? > Often, > it is completely sufficient to have less samples for a .pdf document. > Note that if you generate some .png graphics containing JUST the plot, > you could use pgfplots to overlay an axis by means of its \addplot > graphics feature. That would have a smaller pdf. > > Best regards > > Christian > > Am 30.11.2012 19:19, schrieb aurelien coillet: > > Hi, > > > > I'd like to plot a large file (78000 points) with pgfplots, and it > > obviously fails with pdflatex. I tried to use lualatex instead, > but it > > does not seem to find my file... > > So I tried a very simple example : > > > > \documentclass{article} > > \usepackage[utf8]{luainputenc} > > \usepackage{pgfplots} > > \pgfplotsset{compat=1.7} > > > > \begin{document} > > > > \begin{tikzpicture} > > \begin{axis} > > \addplot file {Sinus}; > > \end{axis} > > \end{tikzpicture} > > > > \end{document} > > > > with the Sinus file (a small one, 100 points) starting with: > > > > 0.00000000e+00 0.00000000e+00 > > 2.02020202e-02 2.02006461e-02 > > 4.04040404e-02 4.03930481e-02 > > 6.06060606e-02 6.05689655e-02 > > 8.08080808e-02 8.07201641e-02 > > 1.01010101e-01 1.00838420e-01 > > > > and it fails with: > > > > ! Package pgfplots Error: sorry, plot file{Sinus} could not be > opened. > > > > Note that compiling this document with pdflatex works as intended. > > What am I doing wrong? I searched on google, but couldn't find > > anything... > > > > Thanks for your help! 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