fix_matlab_eps

A Python script to fix artifacts in EPS files generated from Matlab contour plots

These artifacts are white lines that have been present since Matlab 2014b

Example

Here is an example of what the EPS looks like before and after my script. The EPS was created by

z = peaks;
contourf(z);
print(gcf,'-depsc','-painters','out.eps');

Disclaimer

I do not know anything about EPS files. I just looked at the difference between EPS files from Inkscape with and without the artifacts and tried to reproduce that using a Python script. If you have a file for which it doesn't work, please share it with me so I can try to reproduce things in a similar way.

This code was only tested with Inkscape 0.48.4 and Matlab 2015b on a small amount of countour plots.