[Matplotlib-users] Feature request: nice grouping in postscript output

[Andrew S. <as...@in...>]

Hi John et al.,

I just had a chance to play with matplotlib for a few minutes, and I'm 
very encouraged!

A feature request: I frequently use Adobe Illustrator to touch up 
postscript files that contain my figures. In this case, it is REALLY 
handy when the postscript files group nicely.  Knowing little-to-nothing 
about PostScript and Illustrator, I have no idea how hard the behavior 
is to implement, but it would be fantastic if it did.

I just tried a few things with the axes_demo and the errorbar_demo in 
the examples directory.  I liked that the points grouped together.  I 
didn't like that in the errorbar_demo that the points and the errorbars 
grouped together almost inseparably.

With the demos tested, the primary curve or points grouped with a 
rectangle around the plotting region that had no fill or stroke but 
seemed to clip the contents to within that box.  I wonder if it would be 
nicer to produce postscript output where the clipping is done before 
rendering to a file, thus eliminating the need for this rather strangely 
behaved box?

Also, the generated plots have some two boxes, one with a white stroke 
and one with a white fill, surrounding the figure.  These, too, seem 
unnecessary.

Cheers!
Andrew