Re: [Matplotlib-users] preserving transparency in eps

[Jouni K. S. <jk...@ik...>]

Chuck Pepe-Ranney <cp...@mi...> writes:

>> The postscript format does not support transparency.  This is not a
>> matplotlib limitation but a postscript limitation.  The best solution
>> is to save your matplotlib figures as pdf, [...]
>
> Thanks, I guess my problem is that I am using the latex prosper
> package to make presentation slides but I cannot compile prosper
> documents with pdflatex [...]

You could try creating pdf output from matplotlib and converting it to
ps using ps2ps2, which will flatten the transparent objects into one big
bitmap:

http://ghostscript.com/doc/current/Ps2ps2.htm
http://www.ghostscript.com/pipermail/gs-devel/2009-April/008328.html

You may need to tweak the ps2write parameters, especially the output
resolution, to find the best tradeoff between file size and quality.

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