[matplotlib-devel] Fwd: rgrids and thetagrids raise AttributeError and TypeError

2008-06-18 Thread Tony Yu
I was playing around with polar plots and trying to alter the grid labels when I ran into some weird errors. Whenever I call pyplot.thetagrids() (and similarly with rgrids) I get: >>> AttributeError: 'PolarAxesSubplot' object has no attribute 'thetagridlines After searching the MPL direct

Re: [matplotlib-devel] PNG transparency

2008-06-18 Thread Michael Droettboom
Of course, this depends on what you mean by transparency. If you mean to change the alpha of the entire PNG, then yes, the global parameter (or postprocessing) is the way to go. But I'm not sure how useful that is -- that will still lighten things behind the figure and axes patch. A more use

Re: [matplotlib-devel] PNG transparency

2008-06-18 Thread Christopher Barker
Nils Wagner wrote: > "John Hunter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I wonder if we should support a global rc alpha I'd make it an optional parameter to savefig(), but I like the idea. Of course one could pretty easily post-process it as well. -CHB -- Christopher Barker, Ph.D. Oceanographe

Re: [matplotlib-devel] PNG transparency

2008-06-18 Thread Nils Wagner
On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 09:17:27 -0500 "John Hunter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 8:56 AM, Nils Wagner > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Is it possible to produce transparent png's with mpl ? > > Yes, but you must explicitly set the transparency on >every object you > want

Re: [matplotlib-devel] PNG transparency

2008-06-18 Thread John Hunter
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 8:56 AM, Nils Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is it possible to produce transparent png's with mpl ? Yes, but you must explicitly set the transparency on every object you want to be transparent:: fig = plt.figure() fig.figurePatch.set_alpha(0.5) ax = fig.add_su

[matplotlib-devel] PNG transparency

2008-06-18 Thread Nils Wagner
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Re: [matplotlib-devel] pdf file path or other problem in docs?

2008-06-18 Thread John Hunter
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 5:47 PM, John Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There are significant changes to image handling, how they are copied > etc, between the prior sphinx version and HEAD, so I suspect we need > to figure out if we need to do something different or if it is a > plain-ol-bug.