On Nov 30, 2007 4:58 PM, Michael Droettboom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Peter I. Hansen wrote: > > Hi > > > > I'm typestting some graphs including a few axvspan's with eg. a > > facecolor='0.6' . This looks very nice if I output a PNG, but when I > > inculde this in my TeX document the axis labels dosn't scale. Then I > > try to go the postscript way, and the the labels scale nicely but the > > colored fields of axvspan prints as a coarse raster color. > > I assume you mean that the axvspan prints as a solid color, rather than > semi-transparent (alpha-blended). That is an unfortunate limitation of > the Postscript format -- it can not handle transparency.
Yes, I'm using a solid color. > > Is there a best way of optimizing print quality? > > Each of the output formats has a number of different limitations -- it > depends a lot on what you're rendering and where you need it to go. > > You could try saving as a PDF, and then using pdftex to generate your > document, if that's an option for you. Unfortunately, saving directly as PDF does not work on my (Debian) system. It gives a "NotImplementedError". I'm using version 0.90.1, and maybe this will change for 0.91 . ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: The Future of Linux Business White Paper from Novell. From the desktop to the data center, Linux is going mainstream. Let it simplify your IT future. http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/8857-50307-18918-4 _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
