[yt-dev] EPS writer

[Matthew Turk]

Hi Geoffrey,

On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 5:31 PM, Geoffrey So <gsiisg at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, I guess this question mainly goes to John Wise,
>
> I currently have two columns of data I am plotting with matplotlib calls,
> but if I save them as EPS the file size is ~1.5 MB instead of png as ~35KB,
> is there a simple way to save them as EPS format, with PNG graph but LaTeX
> text for the axis in YT?

If you're making image plots, one quick thing to try is to supply the
keyword rasterized = True .  I don't have any additional suggestions,
but I bet John can get your data into Pyx.  :)

-Matt

>
> During your latest YT workshop talk, you showed how we can create EPS images
> using PlotCollection png phase graph with LaTeX text, which is exactly what
> I wanted to do for my publication to bring down the image file size...
> Except my graphs were created from 2 columns of data (derived using YT but
> plotted with matplotlib) and not the PlotCollection engine.  Can the png be
> inserted to PlotCollection to take advantage of the EPS writer?
>
> Other suggestions, comments are welcomed (such as not even bother worrying
> about the file size, or this is beyond the scope of YT).
>
> From
> G.S.
>
> PS.  I've tried using the cmap=gray in the imshow call, and that cuts the
> file size down to 0.5MB, but colored plots are so much nicer!
>
>
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