On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 10:00 PM, Ryan May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What else is confusing is how that relates to DPI. When I change the > figure's dpi, using set_dpi, (and redraw), I get physically *bigger* barbs. > To me, if I'm actually specifying pixels, there's no way that they should > get bigger when I change the DPI. When you increase the dpi, the canvas gets bigger (inches*dpi equals canvas size in pixels). If you are drawing in pixels, and not scaling, the barbs should look smaller, since they are a smaller proportion of the canvas size. So if this explanation is right, the barbs will look smaller with larger dpi. > Then I also can't figure out what the PS backend is doing. If PS is > hardcoded to 72 DPI, why does passing dpi=72 to savefig() have any effect? ps should be unaffected, but dpi dependent backends will. By setting the dpi to be 72, it should make the *other* backend look like the ps backend and the ps backend should be unaffected. JDH ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
