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Re: Export a graphical plot to pdf file

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• Subject: [mg128619] Re: Export a graphical plot to pdf file
• From: Kristjan Kannike <kkannike at ut.ee>
• Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2012 02:07:52 -0500 (EST)
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Hello,

The problem is that ContourPlot, DensityPlot etc. compose their plot of
lots of tiny polygons. PDF is a vector format and preserves them all. The
PDF file becomes large and loads and scrolls slowly.

There is a FixPolygons package that merges polygons of the same colour
that results in drastically reduced PDF size:

https://github.com/wspr/mmapkg

This works well with ContourPlot. Unfortunately not so well (sometimes)
with DensityPlot as its polygons are filled with gradients, not one
colour.

Best,
Kristjan Kannike

On Thu, 8 Nov 2012, Nasser M. Abbasi wrote:

> On 11/6/2012 11:57 PM, Szymon Roziewski wrote:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I have a ContourPlot result which I need to put into pdf file.
> > The problem is that the filled area is in a mess, I mean there are lots of
> > thin white stripes on it.

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