Re: [Matplotlib-users] emulate transparency in eps

[Eric F. <ef...@ha...>]

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