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

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

Hello,

On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 09:30:31AM -0600, John Hunter wrote:
> >>>>> "Jochen" =3D=3D Jochen Voss <vo...@se...> writes:
>=20
>     Jochen> I have another (more intrusive) patch ready, which strips
>     Jochen> down the PostScript file size even more by removing about
>     Jochen> 20 million gsave/grestore pairs per figure.  I tried the
>     Jochen> backend_driver script and the patch seems to work.  Can I
>     Jochen> also check this in, or should I be stabilising the
>     Jochen> PostScript backend at the moment?
>=20
> If it passes backend driver and appears logically correct to you,
> check it in.  I added those 20 million pairs to be on the safe side
> when I wrote the PS backend, but was never very happy about them.

I checked in the patch yesterday evening.  The patch decreased the
total size of the PostScript files generated by backend_driver.py from
37MB to 31MB.

All the best,
Jochen
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