Re: [Matplotlib-users] large postscript files

[Darren D. <dd...@co...>]

On Wednesday 06 September 2006 09:49, John Hunter wrote:
> >>>>> "Darren" == Darren Dale <dd...@co...> writes:
>
>     Darren> which is 17 bytes long. 17*80000 = 1.36MB. Maybe we dont
>     Darren> need as many sig figs, that could cut the size down by
>     Darren> maybe 25%.
>
> We could make the fmt string for PS and SVG output floats a
> configurable parameter and be done with it.  As you know, we've spent
> a lot of time trying to get the right string that doesn't produce
> visual errors and I'm not inclined to change the default.  But we
> could make it an rc param for those who want to trade accuracy for
> space.

Good idea. Should we make it a kwarg or an rc parameter? The number of rc 
parameters continues to grow...