This post summarizes an extended period of deep annoyance. I have tried to solve the problem it describes more than once before and not quite done it. This has, in fact, happened again. I have still not satisfactorily solved the problem. But this time I know why I can’t solve it in a civilized manner. My goal is simple, and reasonable. I want to produce more or less identical plots in both PNG and PDF formats. PNG is a raster format. PDF is a vector format and also the Devil Incarnate. Some...
