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

[Neal Becker]

I didn't change it from the default.  Guess I could try changing
'path.simplify_threshold'

On Fri, Oct 2, 2020 at 11:55 AM Paul Hobson <pmhobson at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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