Hi,
The following creates a plot that uses transparency to render otherwise obscured data visible …
tval = 1980:1:2009;figure(1); clf;hold on;h1 = area(x, y1); set(h1, 'FaceColor', [0.9 0.8 0.8], 'EdgeColor', [0.9 0.8 0.8]); h1b = get(h1, 'Children'); set(h1b, 'FaceAlpha', 0.5);h2 = area(x, y2); set(h2, 'FaceColor', [0.8 0.8 0.9], 'EdgeColor', [0.8 0.8 0.9]); h2b = get(h2, 'Children'); set(h2b, 'FaceAlpha', 0.5); plot (tval, ann_data_sst, 'r-', tval, ann_nemo_sst, 'b-'); axis ([1980 2009 17.8 19.4]); axis square; xlabel ('Time [year]'); ylabel ('SST [{\circ}C]'); title ('Sea surface temperature');paper; orient portrait;print -depsc2 -painters future_1980_2009_phys… And I'm quite pleased with the result, at least as it appears on the screen. However, when I try to print it to an EPS file, all I get is a flat plot with no transparency. Obscured data remains annoyingly obscured.
From poking around the MathWorks website, it looks like this loss of transparency may be a fundamental limitation of printing to EPS in vector format. If I drop the -painters option or use OpenGL instead (while still writing to an EPS file), I get the transparency but with hideous bitmap fonts, etc. A colleague suggested switching to PDF, but I find I get the same results with this – so long as I'm printing in vector format, transparency seems a no-go.
Has anyone here ever done anything like this successfully (or better) before? Alternatively, does anyone have any tips for how I could plot such a set of data to achieve something like the transparency effect that I'm aiming for?
Apologies for having such a woolly question.
Best regards,
Andrew.
P.S. I can try to post up images of what I mean if it's not obvious.
P.P.S. For reference …
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