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From: Eric F. <ef...@ha...> - 2012-06-20 17:49:29
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On 06/20/2012 04:38 AM, Francesco Montesano wrote: > Dear list, > > it might be that this is not the best place to ask, but I guess that > there are enough people with experience with colors. > > I think plots with nice colors and shaded areas are very nice, but for > my publication I have to use eps files, that do not support > transparency. > The script below produce a figure like the one that I would like to > make. If I save it as eps all the shaded areas are not transparent and > the plot look ugly and unreadable. > > A way to emulate transparency that I've applied some time ago was to > get the RGB value of the transparent color (with DigitalColor Meter on > Mac) and to insert it by hand in fill_between, with a low value for > the zorder option. The results was fine, but I don't like too much > this approach, as any change in color or alpha value would require to > go, get the new color, insert it and redo the figure. > > Is anyone aware of a way to obtain automatically a RGB color that on > screen or printed looks similar to the corresponding RGBA? > > Thanks in advance, > Francesco Francesco, Can't you achieve the same result more easily by saving as pdf and then using something like ghostscript to convert the pdf to eps? Eric |