Re: [Matplotlib-users] Millions of data points saved to pdf

2014-05-02 Thread Daniele Nicolodi
On 01/05/2014 19:50, nertskull wrote: > Is there anyway to have reasonable pdf sizes as well as this improved > performance for keeping them in vector format? As others tried to explain to you, plotting that many points in a plot does not make any sense. The only thing that makes sense is to down-

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Millions of data points saved to pdf

2014-05-02 Thread Jouni K . Seppänen
nertskull writes: > If I change that line the "if True:" then I get MUCH better results. > But I also get enormous file sizes. That's interesting! It means that your pdf viewing program (which one, by the way? Adobe Reader or some alternative?) is slow at compositing a large number of prerender

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Millions of data points saved to pdf

2014-05-02 Thread claudef
Dear colleagues, I had a similar issues with a large plot and several thousands of elements printed under Linux and Qt4Agg back-end. At the PDF render I got some vector overlay and distortion of markers in the drawing, so I've changed the plotting output into a two step process, generating fi