Re: [matplotlib-devel] problem with the PS-backend in matplotlib 0.64

[Jochen V. <vo...@se...>]

Hello John,

On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 08:12:00AM -0600, John Hunter wrote:
> No worries, we're used to doing bug fix releases around here.  Better
> that you caught it than some irate gnuplot user who comes around here
> complaining about matplotlib's PS file sizes :-)
Well, everything is of course still dominated by the huge included
fonts, so they will probably not notice ;-)  Maybe I can start doing
something about this during the week-end.  Let's see ...

> Just commit the patch and in a few days as we iron out any remaining
> bugs that are discovered I'll post a bug fix release.
The patch is already in CVS.

I have another (more intrusive) patch ready, which strips down the
PostScript file size even more by removing about 20 million
gsave/grestore pairs per figure.  I tried the backend_driver script
and the patch seems to work.  Can I also check this in, or should I be
stabilising the PostScript backend at the moment?

All the best,
Jochen
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