> On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 06:05:39PM +0200, Andreas Hilboll wrote: >> > Hi Andreas, >> > >> > 2012/7/26 Andreas Hilboll <li...@hilboll.de>: >> >> Hi, >> >> >> >> I would like to create a figure which only contains a legend, and no >> >> axes >> >> at all. I would like to manually assign the colors. I found this >> here: >> >> >> >> http://stackoverflow.com/a/3302666 >> >> >> >> but from there on, I'd like to remove the axes, and put the legend >> into >> >> three columns. >> > >> > If the plot attached it's fine for you it's easy: >> > >> > import matplotlib.pyplot as plt >> > ax = plt.subplot() #create the axes >> > ax.set_axis_off() #turn off the axis >> > .... #do patches and labels >> > ax.legend(patches, labels, ...) #legend alone in the figure >> > plt.show() >> > >> > Cheers, >> > Francesco >> >> That's really easy :) I could live with this solution, applying some >> external tool like pdfcrop to the result. Of course, it would be nicer >> if >> the PDF's page size would be exactly that of the legend (plus some >> margin), so that I wouldn't have to resort to external tools ... >> >> Any ideas? >> > > How about > > plt.savefig('roflcakes.png', bbox_inches='tight', pad_inches=0.1) > > Since the other artists are invisible, that should crop to just your > legend. I'm assuming matplotlib updates the BoundingBox such that it > doesn't include invisible artists.
Thanks for your help, guys! I wasn't totally happy with the 'tight' bounding box, as the margins to the legend were not uniform on all four sides. So I did indeed return to a subprocess.call(['pdfcrop', ...]). Cheers, A. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
