Hello again,

I can set the figure size and font size, that all works fine. However,  
the legend is prohibitively large: for a plot 3 inches wide (why  
doesn't matplotlib use centimeters or similar?), the legend takes up  
about one third of the plot. This does not look too good...

cheers,
Paul

On 29. mai. 2009, at 17.38, Damon McDougall wrote:

> Hi Paul,
>
> You could set the figure size and font size in inches of your plot  
> in matplotlib to be the same as that of the physical size it will  
> appear on paper. That way, all your axes labels and plot text will  
> be the same size as the text in your latex document.
>
> Is this what you want?
> Regards,
> --Damon
>
> On 29 May 2009, at 16:25, Paul Anton Letnes wrote:
>
>> Howdy y'all!
>>
>> I'm trying to make a publication quality plot for a two-column latex
>> article. I'm using latex for text processing, so the plot quality
>> itself is impeccable. However, as I scale the plot size down, the
>> legend becomes extremely large compared to the plot itself.  Has
>> anyone solved this problem in a good manner? I'm not willing to make
>> do without the legend.
>>
>> cheers,
>> Paul.
>>
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