[Matplotlib-users] Simplifying plots (reducing data points)?

[Paul Hobson]

Neal,

Do you have line simplification turned on in your rcParams?
https://matplotlib.org/3.3.2/tutorials/introductory/usage.html#line-segment-simplification
-paul

On Fri, Oct 2, 2020 at 6:22 AM Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I produced a line plot as:
> ax.plot (x, y, '.')
> and saved as pdf.
>
> Both x and y were large vectors, resulting in a large pdf, and when
> incorporated into a LaTeX document, the resulting pdf takes a long time to
> open.
>
> Other than my manually decimating the vectors:
> ax.plot (x[::100], y[::100], '.')
>
> Is there some way within mpl to simplify plots?  Or perhaps
> post-processing the pdf?
>
> Thanks,
> Neal
>
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