[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #51141] printing bitmap image to eps is slow and produces huge files

[Pantxo Diribarne]

Update of bug #51141 (project octave):

                Category:                Plotting => Plotting with OpenGL   
                  Status:                    None => Invalid                

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Follow-up Comment #1:

Hi,

Thanks for your report. "pcolor" produces a surface object not a bitmap image.
Now if you look at the eps produced by Matlab you'll see that the surface is
replaced by an image. 
So unless this behavior is documented somewhere in ML doc I don't think we can
call this a bug: Octave produces a vector output from vector objects while ML
produces quasi-raster output! 

If you are happy with how ML figures appear in your final document (latex??)
then there are a couple of workaround in Octave:
* print to png. This is incredibly slow since Octave will first print to eps
and then convert to png, but then the file is 100kB large.
* use "imagesc" instead of "pcolor"

May I close this report, or do you still think there is a bug?

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