Dear Eric, Thanks for your reply. This is surely not good news -- maybe an automatic shrinking mechanism could be added in a future version of Matplotlib (this would be useful not only with maps, but with other plots as well)?
Regards, 2008/11/20 Eric Firing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Mauro Cavalcanti wrote: >> >> Dear ALL, >> >> Another (this time possibly quite silly) question: how can I make a >> Basemap cover entirely the display area of the GUI backend (ie., >> without the top, bottom, left, right spaces)? >> >> I tried something like: >> >> self.figure = Figure() >> self.figure.subplots_adjust(left=-0.01, bottom=-0.750, right=1.0, >> top=1.55) >> >> but could not control the bottom (or top) margins. > > The reason is that a map has a fixed aspect ratio, and there is no mechanism > for automatically shrinking the appropriate figure dimension to eliminate > extra space. You will have adjust the figure dimensions manually. > > Eric > >> >> Thanks in advance for any hints. >> >> Best regards, >> > > -- Dr. Mauro J. Cavalcanti Ecoinformatics Studio P.O. Box 46521, CEP 20551-970 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, BRASIL E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://studio.infobio.net Linux Registered User #473524 * Ubuntu User #22717 "Life is complex. It consists of real and imaginary parts." ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
