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

2014-03-25 Thread Slavin, Jonathan
. Jon On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 4:39 PM, < matplotlib-users-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > From: Christopher Kuhlman > To: Goyo > Cc: matplotlib-users > Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 16:38:59 -0400 (EDT) > Subject: Re: [Matplotlib-users] how to reduce the file size of p

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
a thing? Thanks again. c - Original Message - From: "Goyo" To: "Christopher Kuhlman" Cc: "matplotlib-users" Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2014 4:11:08 PM Subject: Re: [Matplotlib-users] how to reduce the file size of plots generated with matplotlib 2014-03-

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