Mix raster / vector in ps / pdf plots

I wish to plot large sets of data, with preserving the editability of texts such as title, axes, etc. Is there a way to "render" the date within the axes while keeping the vectorized version of the texts in the saved ps / pdf file?

The workaround could be to plot the data without any texts to a raster image, read the image back, overlay texts and save again in vector format, which is quite tedious.

[Ryan]

This may save you some time if you go about using the tedious method: export_fig

[Gergely]

Thanks. I have already been using export_fig when appropriate, although most of the time the built-in print function with a couple of settings is fine for me. Except when I need the external editing on figures that plot gigabytes of data, when obviously I cannot even save a temporary vector ps / pdf file either. Sigh.

Answer 1

[Oliver Woodford]

I believe exportfig (which is different from export_fig) can export mixed raster & vector pdfs.

Answer 2

[Theo Michelis]

Old thread but check out the vecrast function.