Re: [Matplotlib-users] how to reduce the file size of plots generated with matplotlib

2014-03-22 Thread Goyo
2014-03-22 21:38 GMT+01:00 Christopher Kuhlman : > Thank you both for your fast replies. (Just an aside, plotting all the > points is a quick way to detect outliers.) > > Before I sent the email, I tried to find a simple raster command in > matplotlib to do just that (convert the image to raster

Re: [Matplotlib-users] how to reduce the file size of plots generated with matplotlib

2014-03-22 Thread Christopher Kuhlman
Thank you both for your fast replies. (Just an aside, plotting all the points is a quick way to detect outliers.) Before I sent the email, I tried to find a simple raster command in matplotlib to do just that (convert the image to raster), but I could not find one in my search. Is there such

Re: [Matplotlib-users] how to reduce the file size of plots generated with matplotlib

2014-03-22 Thread Andrea Gavana
On 22 March 2014 20:23, Christopher Kuhlman wrote: > Hello: > > I use matplotlib to generate x-y data plots; i.e., 2-D plots. The problem > is that the output files (the PDF files containing plots that are generated > with matplotlib) are huge. I can generate files that are 100's of KB or > even

Re: [Matplotlib-users] how to reduce the file size of plots generated with matplotlib

2014-03-22 Thread Goyo
2014-03-22 20:23 GMT+01:00 Christopher Kuhlman : [...] > For example, most recently, I am plotting 3 data sets; each data set has > about 90,000 points. If I plot all three sets in one PDF figure, the file > size is over 2MB. > This seems absurd to me. I used R plotting for many years (again, m

[Matplotlib-users] how to reduce the file size of plots generated with matplotlib

2014-03-22 Thread Christopher Kuhlman
Hello: I use matplotlib to generate x-y data plots; i.e., 2-D plots. The problem is that the output files (the PDF files containing plots that are generated with matplotlib) are huge. I can generate files that are 100's of KB or even MBs. This seems absurd to me. These file sizes cause prog