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I have upgraded to 12.1 (on OSX Catalina 10.15.3) and am noticing some odd behaviour with Rasterize.

If I use a high number of rasters when rasterising a ListDensityPlot the text on the axes and plot label gets scrambled. This (1) does not occur in 12.1 when rasterising a ListPlot, and (2) did not occur when the exact same code was run under 12.0.

Ultimately I am rasterising a bunch of plots and saving them out as eps format. However, here is a much more minimal piece of code which demonstrates the error.

lpd = ListDensityPlot[{{1, 1, 1, 1}, {1, 2, 1, 2}, {1, 1, 3, 1}, {1, 2, 1, 4}}, Mesh -> All, PlotLabel -> "HELLO WORLD", FrameLabel -> {"HELLO WORLD", "HELLO WORLD"}];
lp = ListPlot[Prime[Range[25]], PlotLabel -> "HELLO WORLD", Frame -> True, FrameLabel -> {"HELLO WORLD", "HELLO WORLD"}];

numRaster = 4000;
Rasterize[lp, RasterSize -> numRaster]
Rasterize[lpd, RasterSize -> numRaster]

This gives the following images. Note if numRaster = Automatic the images look fine.

So yes, I understand that I can set numRaster = Automatic, but I am just puzzled by code working in 12.0 and suddenly breaking 12.1.

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  • $\begingroup$ No problem with version 12.1 on Windows 10 x64. $\endgroup$
    – Alexey Popkov
    Mar 24, 2020 at 11:39

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I also have encountered this bug in 12.1. It has been reported to WRI already. It can be mitigated by choosing the RasterSize an integer multiple of the ImageSize:

lpd = ListDensityPlot[{{1, 1, 1, 1}, {1, 2, 1, 2}, {1, 1, 3, 1}, {1, 
     2, 1, 4}}, Mesh -> All, PlotLabel -> "HELLO WORLD", 
   FrameLabel -> {"HELLO WORLD", "HELLO WORLD"}, ImageSize -> 500];
lp = ListPlot[Prime[Range[25]], PlotLabel -> "HELLO WORLD", 
   Frame -> True, FrameLabel -> {"HELLO WORLD", "HELLO WORLD"}, 
   ImageSize -> 500];

numRaster = 4000;
Rasterize[lp, RasterSize -> numRaster]
Rasterize[lpd, RasterSize -> numRaster]

which works as it should. (at least on Mac)

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    $\begingroup$ On my Mac with v12.1 and using your code, there are still problems with the labels for the ListDensityPlot. $\endgroup$
    – Bob Hanlon
    Mar 21, 2020 at 18:43
  • $\begingroup$ Have you tried RasterSize 1000? or 2000? Depending on your setup the maximum 'drawing buffer' is 4096*4096 or 8192*8192 (including HiDPI stuff and so on). $\endgroup$
    – SHuisman
    Mar 21, 2020 at 21:02
  • $\begingroup$ There are still problems with numRaster = 2000 or numRaster = 1000 $\endgroup$
    – Bob Hanlon
    Mar 21, 2020 at 22:42
  • $\begingroup$ This seems to be a good workaround for me. My issue was during export, as I assume Rasterize is called at some point during that process. With ImageSize -> 500 and Export["~/Desktop/test.png", plot, RasterSize -> 4000, ImageResolution -> 300], I got the correct output. $\endgroup$
    – MassDefect
    Apr 2, 2020 at 18:53
  • $\begingroup$ From what I understood, this is internally already fixed, and might appear in a future update. $\endgroup$
    – SHuisman
    Apr 2, 2020 at 21:06

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