Re: [Matplotlib-users] Pdf File sizes on newer versions of matplotlib is a lot larger

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

Jeffrey Spencer <jef...@gm...> writes:

> I have three different versions of matplotlib that all output different
> file sizes with matplotlib 1.1.1 providing the smallest. This is for the
> same exact script. I can post the script if that helps.
>
> MPL 1.4.x: 539.32kb, Ubuntu 12.10
> MPL 1.1.1: 172.56kb Ubuntu 12.10
> MPL 1.2.1: 475.9kb, Ubuntu 13.04

Yes, it would be interesting to know what the plotting commands are.
Just as a guess, since all the sizes are a few hundred kilobytes, it
could be a difference in e.g. font embedding - many TrueType fonts are
of comparable size.

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