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I built MPL 1.3 from source, all seem to go OK but I ran into the problem of not finding libfreetype.6.dylib when importing.

On the web, I found references to this problem for builds on OS X. The solutions refer to a file README.osx, which is not
present in the 1.3 distribution. The documentation (http://matplotlib.org/1.3.0/users/installing.html) also refers to this file and appears to be out of date.

I have tried fiddling with the LD_LIBRARY paths, but have not come upon a solution.

--Jim Boyle

Thanks for these tips. It looks like some programs (like illustrator, and
pdf2ps) are semi-smart about handling transparency when converting to ps.
Both have their quirks (illustrator seems to mess up the bounding box,
pdf2ps makes the text look worse/fuzzy).

Is this the recommended/best strategy?

Thanks,
chris


On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 8:04 PM, Jerzy Karczmarczuk <
jer...@un...> wrote:

> Chris Beaumont :
> >
> > I have a semitransparent plot that I rather like:
> ...
> > I'd like to publish something like this in a journal which requires
> > EPS figures. Unfortunately, EPS doesn't support transparency.
> >
> > How hard would it be to coax matplotlib (or another tool) to convert
> > this semi-transparent figure into a non-semitransparent figure that
> > looks the same?
>
> I won't claim that this is an ultimate solution, but what I did a few
> times was to
> 1. Choose the svg backend, savefig the picture as svg.
> 2. Open in Inkscape and export as .eps.
>
> The result was satisfactory.
>
> Jerzy Karczmarczuk
>
>
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Chris Beaumont :
>
> I have a semitransparent plot that I rather like:
...
> I'd like to publish something like this in a journal which requires 
> EPS figures. Unfortunately, EPS doesn't support transparency.
>
> How hard would it be to coax matplotlib (or another tool) to convert 
> this semi-transparent figure into a non-semitransparent figure that 
> looks the same?

I won't claim that this is an ultimate solution, but what I did a few 
times was to
1. Choose the svg backend, savefig the picture as svg.
2. Open in Inkscape and export as .eps.

The result was satisfactory.

Jerzy Karczmarczuk