Re: color depth of eps export
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- Subject: [mg89433] Re: color depth of eps export
- From: Szabolcs Horvát <szhorvat at gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2008 02:30:25 -0400 (EDT)
- References: <g2fufq$2k7$1@smc.vnet.net>
haldor wrote:
> Hi all, i am having a ListDensityPlot of discrete values with ColorFunction set to Hue.
> Now, when i export this plot as an eps-file, then i get strange color artefacts, which makes me believe that the color depth of the exported image is too low.
> How can i set the color depth or fix the problem otherwise?
> The commands i used where:
>
> Table[Table[x + y, {x, 1, 10}], {y, 1, 10}];
> ListDensityPlot[%, InterpolationOrder -> 0, ColorFunction -> Hue];
> Export["plot.eps",%];
>
> Mathematica Version is 6.0.0.
> This definitely is a problem with the Export command, because i checked the eps-output from my collegues' computer which looks fine when displayed on my computer.
What kind of artefacts do you see? The output seems fine to me. AFAIK
Mathematica (EPS format itself?) always uses 8 bits/channel, there is no
option to set colour depth.