Re: [Matplotlib-users] Intersecting polygons

[Jerzy K. <jer...@un...>]

Chris Beaumont :
>
> I have a semitransparent plot that I rather like:
...
> I'd like to publish something like this in a journal which requires 
> EPS figures. Unfortunately, EPS doesn't support transparency.
>
> How hard would it be to coax matplotlib (or another tool) to convert 
> this semi-transparent figure into a non-semitransparent figure that 
> looks the same?

I won't claim that this is an ultimate solution, but what I did a few 
times was to
1. Choose the svg backend, savefig the picture as svg.
2. Open in Inkscape and export as .eps.

The result was satisfactory.

Jerzy Karczmarczuk