problem with the PS-backend in matplotlib 0.64

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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?

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.

JDH

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Hello,

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On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 09:30:31AM -0600, John Hunter wrote:

    > 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?

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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