A quick follow-up: if I export to a jpg file, I get the same huge shadow. If I
export to a PDF file, the shadow looks much more like it does on the screen.
> On Sep 3, 2015, at 1:07 PM, Richard Stanton <stan...@haas.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>
> I’m trying to create a pie chart for a presentation. If I turn on shadows,
> they look fine on the screen (in an IPython notebook), but when I export the
> file to a PNG file, the shadow is way larger, and looks pretty ugly. Is this
> a bug? And is there a way to shrink the size of the shadow?
>
> Here’s some sample code that shows the problem:
>
> import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
> numbers = [4380.0, 2474.0, 158]
> explode=(0, 0, 0.5)
> plt.pie(numbers, explode=explode,shadow=True)
> plt.axis('equal')
> plt.savefig(‘grap.png’, dpi=400)
>
> Thanks for any suggestions.
>
> By the way, I’m using Matplotlib version 1.4.3 with the Anaconda distribution
> under OS X.
>
> Richard Stanton
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