Re: [Matplotlib-users] preserving transparency in eps

Chuck Pepe-Ranney wrote: > Thanks, I guess my problem is that I am using the latex prosper package to > make presentation slides but I cannot compile prosper documents with > pdflatex (see here ). > Sorry, I see that this is not a matplotlib specific

Re: [Matplotlib-users] preserving transparency in eps

If you need to stick to eps, another option is to use rasterization feature of the matplotlib itself. This way you can keep part of plot in vector format (e.g., texts, lines, etc ) while rasterizing others. Of course this solution only works if the "quality" of those being rasterized is not very im

Re: [Matplotlib-users] preserving transparency in eps

Chuck Pepe-Ranney writes: >> The postscript format does not support transparency. This is not a >> matplotlib limitation but a postscript limitation. The best solution >> is to save your matplotlib figures as pdf, [...] > > Thanks, I guess my problem is that I am using the latex prosper > packa

Re: [Matplotlib-users] preserving transparency in eps

Thanks, I guess my problem is that I am using the latex prosper package to make presentation slides but I cannot compile prosper documents with pdflatex (see here ). Sorry, I see that this is not a matplotlib specific question so I will try to find a

Re: [Matplotlib-users] preserving transparency in eps

On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 1:04 PM, Chuck Pepe-Ranney wrote: > Does anybody have a good method for preserving quality and transparancy of > eps images when going from matplotlib to latex to pdf?  I can only preserve > the transparency if I save as png and then convert to eps but then I lose > quality.

[Matplotlib-users] preserving transparency in eps

Does anybody have a good method for preserving quality and transparancy of eps images when going from matplotlib to latex to pdf? I can only preserve the transparency if I save as png and then convert to eps but then I lose quality. If I save as eps directly, all my patches are opaque despite the