Rasterisation/vector_friendly not always working
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I tried setting sc._settings.settings._vector_friendly=True
This rasterises some of my figures, but not as expected.
UMAPs: Rasterized when saved, but if I save figures they are no longer rasterized in the notebook when shown (leading to large notebook). If I do not save the figure then the notebook stays small.
Scatterplots: Not saved rasterized. Not sure about the notebook.
Maybe someone should also check other plots, such as violinplots with stripplots.
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Start with sc._settings.settings._vector_friendly and reproduce the reported behavior for UMAPs and scatterplots when saving figures and displaying them in a notebook. Compare rasterization in saved output with notebook output, then check whether violinplots with stripplots show the same issue; done means the affected plots rasterize consistently in both contexts.
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- python
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- data-visualization
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- Bug
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