As Darren notes, it is the font embedding. If this bothers you, you
have two options. Set one of the following to True in your matplotlib
rc file
# use of afm fonts -- breaks mathtext but results in small files
ps.useafm : False
# Experimental: use ghostscript to distill ps output - may yield smaller files
ps.usedistiller : False
For the latter you will need a recent version of ghostscript.
Hope this helps,
JDH
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On Tuesday 26 July 2005 01:11 pm, Mark Bakker wrote:
>> I have the same experience that eps files seem to be much
>> larger than you expect, or than produced by other programs for
>> similar plots. Is it maybe because fonts are embedded in the
>> eps file? Anybody know?
> It is because the fonts are embedded in the eps file.
Another option you might try, which is not built in to matplotlib, is to
create a pdf using ps2pdf (included with ghostscript), and then convert back
using pdftops (included with xpdf). I know it seems dumb, but if you use
mpl's tex/latex support, this is the best method for cleaning the files up so
they can be embedded in another document.
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On Tuesday 26 July 2005 10:14 pm, John Hunter wrote:
> On Tuesday 26 July 2005 01:11 pm, Mark Bakker wrote:
>> I have the same experience that eps files seem to be much
>> larger than you expect, or than produced by other programs for
>> similar plots. Is it maybe because fonts are embedded in the
>> eps file? Anybody know?
> It is because the fonts are embedded in the eps file.
As Darren notes, it is the font embedding. If this bothers you, you
have two options. Set one of the following to True in your matplotlib
rc file
# use of afm fonts -- breaks mathtext but results in small files
ps.useafm : False
# Experimental: use ghostscript to distill ps output - may yield smaller
files ps.usedistiller : False
For the latter you will need a recent version of ghostscript.
--
Darren