Re: [matplotlib-devel] PDF not readable by Adobe PDF readers

Thx a lot you guys, as suggested by Jouni, it was indeed the line ax.axvline(x=1, c='#00', lw='2', alpha=0.5) which caused the problem. Jens' trick to change the backend also led me to the same line as it complains about this misplaced string '2'. You helped me a lot, I was clueless :), t

Re: [matplotlib-devel] PDF not readable by Adobe PDF readers

Ghostscript's -dPDFDEBUG option pointed to an operation in the page description that sets the line width to the string "2", which is nonsensical. When I manually edited that to be the number 2, Adobe Reader displayed the file. Does the source code by any chance include something like this: plot

Re: [matplotlib-devel] PDF not readable by Adobe PDF readers

If you have Cairo installed and the matplotlib Cairo backend you could try to test the pdfs generated with this backend to see if they suffer from the same issue. i.e. add ``` import matplotlib matplotlib.use("cairo") ``` to the top of your script. Depending on where the bug is this may or may no

Re: [matplotlib-devel] PDF not readable by Adobe PDF readers

Thank you for your reply. I am travelling these days and will try to generate a stripped down input data file out of the 12 large hdf5 files. However I find it still very curious that with the same input files, plotting simply read out data plotting works http://ubuntuone.com/50q1yVOKjdmhfqpQljUw

Re: [matplotlib-devel] PDF not readable by Adobe PDF readers

buckeliger writes: > Hey, thx for the reply. The OS is hardly the problem as with the same input > files I can generate plots that work also in acroread. Also, the file you linked to from the Stackoverflow question is just 72kB (and 84kB when uncompressed with pdftk) so it's definitely not goin

Re: [matplotlib-devel] PDF not readable by Adobe PDF readers

Hey, thx for the reply. The OS is hardly the problem as with the same input files I can generate plots that work also in acroread. And as you can probably see, the example file I uploaded to UbuntuOne can be viewed in evince etc. The problem occurs only if the data is being processed; if I only rea

Re: [matplotlib-devel] PDF not readable by Adobe PDF readers

You mentioned in the comments that it only occurs with a lot (~4 GB)of data. Could it be that you're on a 32-bit system and you're generating a file that's too big for your OS to handle? On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 1:21 AM, buckeliger wrote: > I have described and uploaded a sample file with the pro

[matplotlib-devel] PDF not readable by Adobe PDF readers

I have described and uploaded a sample file with the problem to http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20314255/matplotlib-generated-pdf-cannot-be-viewed-in-acrobat-reader there they ment, I