Re: [Matplotlib-users] Re: size of eps files

[John H. <jdh...@ac...>]

>>>>> "Darren" == Darren Dale <dd...@co...> writes:

    Darren> On Tuesday 26 July 2005 01:11 pm, Mark Bakker wrote:
    >> I have the same experience that eps files seem to be much
    >> larger than you expect, or than produced by other programs for
    >> similar plots.  Is it maybe because fonts are embedded in the
    >> eps file?  Anybody know?

    Darren> It is because the fonts are embedded in the eps file.

As Darren notes,, it is the font embedding.  If this bothers you, you
have two options.  Set one of the following to True in your matplotlib
rc file

  # use of afm fonts -- breaks mathtext but results in small files
  ps.useafm         : False    
 
  # Experimental: use ghostscript to distill ps output - may yield smaller files
  ps.usedistiller   : False    

For the latter you will need a recent version of ghostscript.

Hope this helps,
JDH