[Matplotlib-users] Matplotlib-users Digest, Vol 63, Issue 4

[Appel, Thibaut]

If the output size of .pdf is your concern, I suggest you export your figure with matplotlib in .eps, and then use the command line tool « epstopdf » shipped with any LaTeX distribution.

The .pdf backend of matplotlib is far from being optimized.

I always observe a factor of size decrease between 10 and 100 (!) in the output .pdf after running epstopdf, instead of saving directly in .pdf.

Thibaut

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> Hi, checking on sizes of pdf files I noticed that in my system currently
> pdf output are at least 370k when similar plots previously were about 20k.
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> I tested with an old figure (I do not matplotlib version but was created
> about May 2019) and the figure was 15409 bytes while the same figure
> with matplotlib version 3.2.2 has a size of 429110 bytes.
> I checked and this happens even plotting a few (ten) points with line,
> everything using default values.
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> My user configuration file has not been modified but my system may have
> changed.
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> I've found similar reports but regarding much older versions.
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> Any ideas?
>    Regards, Juan
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