Generating PDF or SVG documents
An output to a bitmap picture is not always ideal. Bitmap pictures represent pictures as an array of pixels at one given scale. Zoom in and you will get some well-known artifacts (jaggies, staircases, blur, and so on), depending on the sampling algorithm employed. Vector pictures are scale invariant; no matter at which scale you observe them, no loss of details or artifacts will show up. As such, vector pictures are desirable when composing a larger document, such as a journal article. We do not need to generate new pictures when adjusting the scale of a figure. matplotlib can output vector pictures such as PDF and SVG pictures.
How to do it...
The output to a PDF document is a simple affair, as shown in the following ...
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