Yes, I should have mentioned that; saving an image works fine. But
then if I want to display it 1:1 with figimage() or such, I can't. :(
Silly GUIs, not wanting to display a window larger than my screen....
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 9:43 AM, Michael Droettboom <md...@stsci.edu> wrote:
> There may be a limitation on window sizes in the various GUI backends. Have
> you tried using the non-GUI backend (agg), and now "show"ing it, but just
> using "savefig"?
>
> Mike
>
> doct...@users.sourceforge.net wrote:
>>
>> I'm trying to make a 10 inch wide by 30 inch high, 72 dpi figure and
>> display it interactively. Matplotlib seems to squash the height for
>> anything over a certain size, depending on the backend:
>>
>> ---------------------------------------------------
>> #!/usr/bin/env python
>>
>> import sys, os, matplotlib
>> matplotlib.use('TkAgg')
>> import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
>>
>> print os.uname()
>> print sys.version
>> print matplotlib.__version__
>> print
>>
>> f = plt.figure(figsize=(10,30), dpi=72)
>> print "figheight before show(): %f" % f.get_figheight()
>> plt.show()
>> print "figheight after show(): %f" % f.get_figheight()
>> --------------------------------------------------
>>
>> Prints this:
>>
>> ==========================
>> ('Linux', 'prime', '2.6.31-14-generic', '#48-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 16
>> 14:05:01 UTC 2009', 'x86_64')
>> 2.6.4 (r264:75706, Nov 2 2009, 14:44:17)
>> [GCC 4.4.1]
>> 0.99.0
>>
>> figheight before show(): 30.000000
>> figheight after show(): 22.027778
>> ==========================
>>
>> Tk squashes heights over 12 inches (the heights do get larger as you
>> request larger figures, but not as large as what you request); GTK
>> goes up to 11; and Qt4Agg only goes up to 7.3. WX seems to be the
>> only backend that will give me a 30 inch figure, but even then I have
>> to manually resize the window to make it fit. This happens in scripts
>> with pyplot, in ipython with or without -pylab, and via the matplotlib
>> API.
>>
>> Is there some limitation on figure sizes?
>>
>>
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