Daniel Soto writes:
> as far as the pdf.compression not working, i was using rcParams in the
> script so i'm almost certain the options were being loaded.
A quick way to check if your pdf.compression setting is being picked up
is to grep the pdf file for /FlateDecode. If pdf.compression is set t
ok. i managed to install 0.98.5.x from source into my enthought
python distribution.
after that, using path.simplify helped considerably.
as far as the pdf.compression not working, i was using rcParams in the
script so i'm
almost certain the options were being loaded.
thanks mike,
drs
On 3
Hi Michael,
MD> With recent versions of matplotlib, you can set the "path.simplify"
MD> rcParam to True, which should reduce the data so that vertices that
MD> have no impact on the plot appearance (at the given dpi) are
MD> removed.
Wow. My time-domain waveform plots went from 3.3 mb to 84 kb.
Daniel Soto writes:
> are there any other options or backends that might help?
One thing that might be worth trying if this is a real problem for
you -- but it will require some programming -- is to make use of the
start_rasterizing and stop_rasterizing methods of MixedModeRenderer.
You would
path.simplify was added some time after 0.98.3. You'll have to upgrade
to 0.98.5.x for that feature.
pdf.compression should have some impact on file size, but I doubt it
will have much impact on display times, since it doesn't actually remove
any data. I'm surprised this isn't having any effe
thanks for the suggestion. i'm running 0.98.3 and have tried
pdf.compression
path.simplify
agg.path.chunksize
without any change in filesize (176KB) or time to open file (13 sec).
are there any other options or backends that might help?
drs
On 3 Mar 2009, at 05:29, Michael Droettboom wrote:
With recent versions of matplotlib, you can set the "path.simplify"
rcParam to True, which should reduce the data so that vertices that have
no impact on the plot appearance (at the given dpi) are removed.
You can do either, in your script:
from matplotlib import rcParam
rcParam['path.simpl
hello,
i'm using matplotlib on os x and am having issues with plots of large
data sets. i have some plots which contain about ~1 points and
the pdf files generated bring preview.app and quicklook to their knees
when they open the pdf files.
here is a small file that reproduces my issue
