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

[Benjamin R. <ben...@ou...>]

On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 1:08 PM, Damon McDougall
<dam...@gm...>wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 5:56 PM, Gökhan Sever <gok...@gm...>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 10:21 AM, Benjamin Root <ben...@ou...> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Gökhan Sever <gok...@gm...>
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Thanks Mike,
> >>>
> >>> 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.
> >>>
> >>> I noticed this while posting a sample script on scipy-users:
> >>>
> >>> http://atmos.uwyo.edu/~gsever/data/test/curvefit_test.py
> >>>
> >>> Compare the outputs of pdf and png to see the difference that I am
> >>> mentioning:
> >>>
> >>> http://atmos.uwyo.edu/~gsever/data/test/curvefit_test.pdf
> >>> http://atmos.uwyo.edu/~gsever/data/test/curvefit_test.png
> >>>
> >>
> >> 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?
> >>
> >> Cheers!
> >> Ben Root
> >>
> >
> > 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
>
> Confirmed with Preview.app on OS X 10.7.4.
>
>
I think it looks ok with the old Adobe viewer on linux (I never bothered
updating it since I use Evince).  Kinda hard to tell the difference between
grey and greyer... Could somebody include a screenshot of what they are
seeing?

Ben Root