---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: william ratcliff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Nov 6, 2007 8:27 AM Subject: Re: [Matplotlib-users] problems with eps files and pylab To: Darren Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Thanks--before your mail, I hadn't thought to check other viewers to see if it was viewer artifact and had assumed that the problem was with the output. Cheers, William On Nov 6, 2007 7:11 AM, Darren Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 05 November 2007 11:34:09 pm you wrote: > > Here is how it renders in windows XP--you can notice the grid and that > > the angstrom symbol does not render correctly. This is using > > gsview32, version 4.8 with ghostscript 8.5.4. > > > > However, after your email, I tried looking at it in ghostview 1.5 on a > > silicon graphics machine and found that the image rendered > > nicely, without the gridding, but that the angstrom symbol was still > > incorrect. Evince under linux is rather slow on my linux box, but > > seems to run into similar problems as I see under xp. What are you > > using for viewing? > > I think these are artifacts introduced by the viewer. I don't see them with > kghostview, but I do with ggv. I have ghostscript-8.60 on my machine. I > wonder if you get the same effect if you dont pass a dpi kwarg. I'm sorry, I > dont think there is anything mpl can do about the limitations of external > postscript renderers. > > Darren > > > > On Nov 5, 2007 7:55 PM, Darren Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I don't know what you mean. Your ps and png look the same on my machine. > > > Maybe you can post a screenshot of your rendered postscript file. What > > > version of ghostscript are you using? > > > > > > On Monday 05 November 2007 6:49:17 pm you wrote: > > > > ok, so, the file I generated is ".ps", so why is the gridding occuring? > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > William > > > > > > > > On Nov 5, 2007 6:25 PM, Darren Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Monday 05 November 2007 5:25:48 pm william ratcliff wrote: > > > > > > ftp://ftp.ncnr.nist.gov/pub > > > > > > > > > > > > fig3b.ps > > > > > > > > > > > > Is what I generated, using savefig. Does this generate postscript, > > > > > > or eps output? If I changed the extension in savefig to, ".eps" > > > > > > would it generate an eps file? > > > > > > > > > > .ps is postscript, .eps is encapsulated postscript. Yes, you need to > > > > > specify .eps if you want an eps file. > > > > > > > > > > > On Nov 5, 2007 4:31 PM, Darren Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > On Monday 05 November 2007 3:48:11 pm william ratcliff wrote: > > > > > > > > Hi! I hope I have what is a simple question: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I recently created a figure using pylab and saved it using: > > > > > > > > pylab.savefig(r'c:\fig3b.pdf',dpi=150) > > > > > > > > and it worked great. I made the same figure with a .png ending > > > > > > > > and it also worked well. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > However, when I tried to make an eps file for use with latex > > > > > > > > and publishing, I found: > > > > > > > > using gsview: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > DSC Error at line 527 > > > > > > > > %%Page: 11 > > > > > > > > This %%Page:line occured in the trailer, which is not legal. > > > > > > > > EPS files should be encapsulated in %%BeginDocument/ > > > > > > > > %%EndDocument It is possible that an EPS file was incorrectly > > > > > > > > encapsulated and that we have been cofused by the %%Trailer in > > > > > > > > an EPS file > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > If I ignore all DSC, then I see a figure with noticeable > > > > > > > > gridding across it. However, if I use distiller to convert it > > > > > > > > to a PDF file, it appears fine. > > > > > > > > Any ideas? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > > > William > > > > > > > > (the files are rather large, but are available at: > > > > > > > > ftp://ftp.ncnr.nist.gov/pub/ > > > > > > > > as fig3b.ps, fig3b.pdf, fig3b.png) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Where is the eps file? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > >---- ---- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. > > > > > > > Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. > > > > > > > Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a > > > > > > > browser. 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