Re: [Matplotlib-users] Problem saving open symbols in PDF

[Gökhan S. <gok...@gm...>]

On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 10:21 AM, Benjamin Root <ben...@ou...> wrote:

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> On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Gökhan Sever <gok...@gm...>wrote:
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>> Thanks Mike,
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>> Another point I noticed is setting linewidth to 0 (in fill_between
>> function) isn't working as expected when figure is saved as a PDF file.
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>> I noticed this while posting a sample script on scipy-users:
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>> http://atmos.uwyo.edu/~gsever/data/test/curvefit_test.py
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>> Compare the outputs of pdf and png to see the difference that I am
>> mentioning:
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>> http://atmos.uwyo.edu/~gsever/data/test/curvefit_test.pdf
>> http://atmos.uwyo.edu/~gsever/data/test/curvefit_test.png
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> Actually, this is not a bug in mpl.  It is a "bug" in various viewers.
> Some viewers have a "minimum" linewidth and will use that for any requested
> linewidths smaller than that.  Are you using Apple's Preview?
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> Cheers!
> Ben Root
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Hi Ben,

I was guessing the same way, but trying different viewers doesn't make any
difference:

Evince v3.2.1
Xpdf v3.03
Okular v0.14.3

Could anyone confirm this on a window machine?

-- 
Gökhan