[Yt-dev] DualEPS extension

John Wise jwise at astro.princeton.edu
Fri Apr 30 15:46:53 PDT 2010


Hi Matt,

No problem!  I don't mind it going into v1.7.  I think it'd go well in those doc/extensions.  Thanks for offering to write the initial docs.  I'll happily add / clean anything up afterwards.

John

On 30 Apr 2010, at 17:05, Matthew Turk wrote:

> Hi John,
> 
> Thanks for this!  I can certainly say I will be using it.  Do you
> think this would go well in the docs under the extensions?  I'd like
> to put it out with yt-1.7.  I can make a good start from what you've
> sent and your examples, then maybe hand it off to you for cleaning up?
> 
> -Matt
> 
> On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 8:08 PM, John Wise <jwise at astro.princeton.edu> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I just committed a new extension that can create EPS figures that have both compressed bitmaps and vector graphics.  I've been wanting to do this for the past few years!  I always hate making very high resolution figures for publication *just* to have the text sharp.  This extension can make either a single panel or multi-panel panel with one call.  Here are some examples, notice that their file sizes are similar to their JPEG file sizes.
>> 
>> Single panel example and figures:
>> http://paste.enzotools.org/show/485/
>> http://www.astro.princeton.edu/~jwise/DualEPS/example1.eps  (56kB)
>> http://www.astro.princeton.edu/~jwise/DualEPS/example1anno.eps  (63kB)
>> 
>> Multi-panel:
>> http://paste.enzotools.org/show/486/
>> http://www.astro.princeton.edu/~jwise/DualEPS/example2.eps  (142kB)
>> 
>> It could use some refinements, but I've pretty pleased with its output!  I hope this is useful to many of you.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> John
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