EPS figures in matplotlib (*slightly* off topic)
Hi all, Firstly, I recognize I should probably send this to a matplotlib list so I will do that also. However, I figure this is not a bad place to ask. I'm using matplotlib to write EPS figures, just simply using fig.savefig("test.eps"). However, I'm getting banding effects in the colorbar that I'm not seeing with other formats. I've attached an example. Any suggestions? Best, John Z
Hi John, I've also experienced this before, although I got the banding when I saved to .png, and I didn't get the banding when I switched to .eps. I played around with stuff, but I couldn't seem to get rid of the banding, and since it was a minor effect I let it slide. I'd be interested to hear if you find a solution, though! Good luck. Cameron On 02/11/2012 11:12 AM, John ZuHone wrote:
Hi all,
Firstly, I recognize I should probably send this to a matplotlib list so I will do that also. However, I figure this is not a bad place to ask.
I'm using matplotlib to write EPS figures, just simply using
fig.savefig("test.eps").
However, I'm getting banding effects in the colorbar that I'm not seeing with other formats. I've attached an example. Any suggestions?
Best,
John Z
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Hi John, Which backend are you using? I've had luck in the past with the macosx backend. You may also want to try the ps or cairo backends. I wish there was more documentation on this, but unfortunately, the section of the matplotlib docs on the different backend choices seems to have been removed: http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/backends.html -Nathan On Feb 11, 2012, at 10:34 AM, Cameron Hummels wrote:
Hi John,
I've also experienced this before, although I got the banding when I saved to .png, and I didn't get the banding when I switched to .eps. I played around with stuff, but I couldn't seem to get rid of the banding, and since it was a minor effect I let it slide. I'd be interested to hear if you find a solution, though! Good luck.
Cameron
On 02/11/2012 11:12 AM, John ZuHone wrote:
Hi all,
Firstly, I recognize I should probably send this to a matplotlib list so I will do that also. However, I figure this is not a bad place to ask.
I'm using matplotlib to write EPS figures, just simply using
fig.savefig("test.eps").
However, I'm getting banding effects in the colorbar that I'm not seeing with other formats. I've attached an example. Any suggestions?
Best,
John Z
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Hi John,
I've found some success when supplying the "dpi" keyword to savefig. This
seems to most often work for Cameron's issue by writing to png with
dpi=200. I've also seen this problem before when writing directly to pdf
and this wasn't able to fix it. My solution there was just to png and use
convert to convert it to pdf or eps.
Britton
On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 1:47 PM, Nathan Goldbaum
Hi John,
Which backend are you using? I've had luck in the past with the macosx backend. You may also want to try the ps or cairo backends. I wish there was more documentation on this, but unfortunately, the section of the matplotlib docs on the different backend choices seems to have been removed: http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/backends.html
-Nathan
On Feb 11, 2012, at 10:34 AM, Cameron Hummels wrote:
Hi John,
I've also experienced this before, although I got the banding when I saved to .png, and I didn't get the banding when I switched to .eps. I played around with stuff, but I couldn't seem to get rid of the banding, and since it was a minor effect I let it slide. I'd be interested to hear if you find a solution, though! Good luck.
Cameron
On 02/11/2012 11:12 AM, John ZuHone wrote:
Hi all,
Firstly, I recognize I should probably send this to a matplotlib list so I will do that also. However, I figure this is not a bad place to ask.
I'm using matplotlib to write EPS figures, just simply using
fig.savefig("test.eps").
However, I'm getting banding effects in the colorbar that I'm not seeing with other formats. I've attached an example. Any suggestions?
Best,
John Z
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