Re: [Matplotlib-users] sluggish pdfs with large data sets

[Christopher B. <c-...@as...>]

Hi Michael,

MD> With recent versions of matplotlib, you can set the "path.simplify"
MD> rcParam to True, which should reduce the data so that vertices that
MD> have  no impact on the plot appearance (at the given dpi) are
MD> removed.

Wow. My time-domain waveform plots went from 3.3 mb to 84 kb. This was 
an incredibly timely tip too, because I was just about to go to print 
with my poster, which I did in Scribus, which would hang on the 3-4 mb 
pdf figure. I was about to go to png, but now I don't have to. Thanks.

-- 
Christopher Brown, Ph.D.
Department of Speech and Hearing Science
Arizona State University