On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 4:23 AM, Daniel Mader <danielstefanma...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > there has been a similar question recently but I couldn't figure out > if or how this is solved: > > I'd like to reduce the figure size so that I can add it to a LaTeX > document without scaling (PDF output with LaTeX font rendering). For > that, I need to adapt the font sizes, too. > > Unfortunately, the canvas is not properly scaled so that the axis > labels and the possibly the tick marks are cut off. > > Is this a bug, feature, design flaw? How can I properly work around > it, i.e. reduce the graph automatically for a given figsize/font size > combination so that everything fits on the figure? > > An example follows to demonstrate, thanks in advance
I use matplotlib for this purpose pretty frequently. A few tricks: from http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/users/customizing.html : # note that font.size controls default text sizes. To configure # special text sizes tick labels, axes, labels, title, etc, see the rc # settings for axes and ticks. Special text sizes can be defined # relative to font.size, using the following values: xx-small, x-small, # small, medium, large, x-large, xx-large, larger, or smaller # specify the figure canvas size, in inches figure(figsize=(3.4, 4)) # place the axes in the figure window # specifying (left, bottom, width, height) as fraction of figure size # adjust those positions to make enough room for tick and axis labels axes([0.15, 0.12, 0.8, 0.83]) Specify the dpi for you screen, so the figure rendered on your screen is the correct size. This is figure.dpi, best to set it in matplotlibrc. Darren ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Free Software Download: Index, Search & Analyze Logs and other IT data in Real-Time with Splunk. Collect, index and harness all the fast moving IT data generated by your applications, servers and devices whether physical, virtual or in the cloud. Deliver compliance at lower cost and gain new business insights. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
