Thank you John. I will try as you suggest. I really appreciate your help.
--Tom On 6/10/06, John Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>>> "Tom" == Tom Denniston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Tom> FigureCanvasAgg seems to make fonts appear much larger that > Tom> FigureCanvasWxAgg. I am trying to get plots generated > Tom> interactively in a wx window to appear the same as those that > Tom> I generate in a no display batch script that outputs .png > Tom> files. I use FigureCanvasWxAgg for the former and > Tom> FigureCanvasAgg for the latter. Is there a reason why the > Tom> same font size would appear much larger in FigureCanvasAgg > Tom> than FigureCanvasWxAgg. Is there another, better, way to > Tom> achieve uniformity accross png outputs and wx on screen > Tom> display? > > Tom> It doesn't look like one can use the FigureCanvasAgg for wx > Tom> embedding or the FigureCanvasWxAgg for png generation because > Tom> the former will not accept a parent window and the latter > Tom> requires one. > > Tom> If anyone has any ideas I would greatly appreciate > Tom> suggestions. > > backend_agg and backend_wxagg both use the same underlying pixel > buffer, so you should be able to get uniformity between them. Note, > matplotlib has a different default dpi setting for figures for display > and saving, and you might want to try forcing them to be the same with > > dpi = 72 > fig = figure(dpi=dpi) > plot something > fig.savefig(somefile, dpi=dpi) > > If that doesn't help, the only other possibility is that the > PIXELS_PER_INCH defaults are getting you screwed up. This was > included for display devices which have a different number of pixels > per inch; see > http://groups.google.com/groups?q=screen+dpi+x11&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&safe=off&selm=7077.26e81ad5%40swift.cs.tcd.ie&rnum=5 > for some info about screen dpi. I vaguely recall that there was some > good reason for including the pixels_per_inch constant *and* dpi,, but > now I suspect the system may be overdetermined and we should drop this > and just use the dpi setting. In any case, each backend defines their > own (see src/_backend_wxagg.cpp and backends/backend_wx.py) and the > defaults are different in backend_agg and backend_wx). > > > If the dpi suggestion above doesn't work, try setting PIXELS_PER_INCH > in backend_wx.py to 72. > > JDH > > > _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
