Re: [Matplotlib-users] Intersecting polygons

2013-08-23 Thread Chris Beaumont
Thanks for the tips -- I wish there was a way to do this within MPL, but it sounds like I'll have to live with external hackery. > > > PS. Try to convince the Dark Powers of the journal you send your work, > > that they modernize their processing and accept PDF. > +1 I know, right? chris --

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Intersecting polygons

2013-08-23 Thread Sterling Smith
> > > PS. Try to convince the Dark Powers of the journal you send your work, > that they modernize their processing and accept PDF. +1 -- Introducing Performance Central, a new site from SourceForge and AppDynamics. Pe

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Intersecting polygons

2013-08-23 Thread Jerzy Karczmarczuk
Le 23/08/2013 03:32, Chris Beaumont a écrit : > It looks like some programs (like illustrator, and pdf2ps) are > semi-smart about handling transparency when converting to ps. Both > have their quirks (illustrator seems to mess up the bounding box, > pdf2ps makes the text look worse/fuzzy). > > I

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Intersecting polygons

2013-08-23 Thread Jon Ramsey
Dear Chris and List, pdf2ps is usually just a front end to a long-winded ghostscript ("gs") command. On my system this comes out as: gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -P- -dSAFER -sDEVICE=ps2write "-sOutputFile=$outfile" -c save pop -f "$1" If you're feeling brave, you can look at the ghostscript manual

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Intersecting polygons

2013-08-23 Thread Florian M. Wagner
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

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Intersecting polygons

2013-08-22 Thread Chris Beaumont
Thanks for these tips. It looks like some programs (like illustrator, and pdf2ps) are semi-smart about handling transparency when converting to ps. Both have their quirks (illustrator seems to mess up the bounding box, pdf2ps makes the text look worse/fuzzy). Is this the recommended/best strategy?

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Intersecting polygons

2013-08-22 Thread Jerzy Karczmarczuk
Chris Beaumont : > > I have a semitransparent plot that I rather like: ... > 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-tra

[Matplotlib-users] Intersecting polygons

2013-08-22 Thread Chris Beaumont
Hi, I have a semitransparent plot that I rather like: [image: 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-transpare