Peter Pippan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was wondering about the eps output produced by imshow().
> 
> This program
> ----------------------------------------------
> from pylab import *
> Z = rand(10,10)
> imshow(Z,interpolation='nearest',cmap=cm.bone)
> savefig('bone.eps')
> imshow(Z,interpolation='nearest',cmap=cm.gray)
> savefig('gray.eps')
> ----------------------------------------------
> produces files with sizes of
> 11M and 172K for bone.eps and gray.eps
> respectively.

With svn, I get nearly the same size for both, and intermediate between 
your two:

-rw------- 1 efiring efiring  1413040 2009-05-01 07:19 bone.eps
-rw------- 1 efiring efiring  1407313 2009-05-01 07:19 gray.eps


> 
> Does anybody know why the difference is that large?
> I would expect a factor of 3 for RGB or 4 if an alpha channel is
> included, but not a factor of about 60.

Yes, it's bizarre.  I have no idea what was going on.  Fortunately, it 
no longer is.

Eric


> 
> Best regards,
> Peter
> 
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