Figure2eps - Version 1.0
June 2013
Description
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This script enables the combination of vector graphics for text, axes, line plots etc and bitmap graphics for large surfaces in one and the same .eps file.
It automatically selects the apropriate renderer to ensure a high quality graphics while simultaneously ensuring that the graphics can later be viewed with suffieicnt speed.
Generating vector graphics from figures with large surfaces or with a large number of patches leads to an .eps file which are very slow to open. These files also cause problems on many
printers because it requires the printer to convert the very large
numbers of patches to a bitmap it can print.
The following logic is used when determining which renderer to use:
1) The painters renderer is used to render Figures without surfaces and patches to an .eps file.
2) The painters renderer is used is a figure has patches or surfaces if the number of patches is lower than 'maxNrPatches' (default = 1000).
3) For large surfaces or figures with a large number of patches:
- Painters is used for all non surface an patch graphics e.g. axes, text line plots etc.
- A bitmapRender (default = zbuffer) is used for the surfaces and patches.
- Then the vector graphics portion and the bitmap portions are combined in one .eps file.
4) It is also possible to force the use of the painters renderer.
I would like to thank Will Robertson for his contribution |epscombine.m| at Matlab File Exchange:
http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/16902
I wish to acknowledge that without his contribution an important part of this package would be missing. For convenience the epscombine.m code is included in package.
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