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breedlun opened this issue Mar 22, 2015 · 3 comments
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Saving a pdf, with a single image, grayscale colormap, and transparent background produces a black background #4260

breedlun opened this issue Mar 22, 2015 · 3 comments
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backend: pdf topic: color/alpha
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@breedlun
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This issue appears to be similar to what eventually got resolved in #1894

If I save a pdf with a single image, grayscale colormap and a transparent background, the axes background does not remain transparent. It becomes a black background. If I deviate from any of those ingredients, then the background is transparent as specified.

Example:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from numpy.random import rand

fig, ax = plt.subplots(nrows=3, ncols=1, sharex=True)

ax[0].imshow(rand(15,15), extent=[0, 2, 15, 0], \
            cmap=plt.cm.gray, aspect='auto', interpolation='Nearest')

ax[1].imshow(rand(15,15), extent=[0, 2, 15, 0], \
            cmap=plt.cm.rainbow, aspect='auto', interpolation='Nearest')

ax[2].imshow(rand(15,15), extent=[0, 2, 15, 0], \
            cmap=plt.cm.gray, aspect='auto', interpolation='Nearest')
ax[2].imshow(rand(15,15), extent=[4, 6, 15, 0], \
            cmap=plt.cm.gray, aspect='auto', interpolation='Nearest')

ax[-1].set_xlim([0, 8])
fig.savefig('transparent.pdf', format='PDF', transparent = True)
fig.savefig('opaque.pdf', format='PDF', transparent = False)
fig.savefig('transparent.png', format='PNG', transparent = True)

Here is 'transparent.pdf', with the black background on the first set of axes:
transparent-pdf

Here is 'opaque.pdf', which looks correct:
opaque-pdf

Here is 'transparent.png', which also looks correct:
transparent

In case it matters, I am on Mac OS X 10.8.5, Enthought Canopy Python 2.7.6, and Matplotlib 1.4.0
@tacaswell tacaswell added this to the next point release milestone Mar 22, 2015
@dkua
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dkua commented Mar 23, 2015

Can confirm that this also occurs on

Mac OS X 10.9.5, Python 2.7.9, matplotlib 1.4.3
and
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Python 2.7.3, matplotlib 1.4.3

@jkseppan
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I recently fixed one bug related to alpha channels in grayscale images, and I cannot reproduce this problem on current master, so I'll assume the fix helped with this case too. Thanks for a clearly written report, and please feel free to reopen if this reappears.

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I can confirm the issue is gone now. Thanks to @jkseppan.

breedlun pushed a commit to breedlun/clearplot that referenced this issue Oct 20, 2020
Changed add_grayscale_image_to_plot test to use matplotlib's imread f…
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…unction because scipy's imread is deprecated. Also eliminated the comment about matplotlib/matplotlib#4260 since it appears to be resolved.
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