[matplotlib-devel] Inches?

2007-10-28 Thread Olivier Verdier
Hi! I really enjoy using matplotlib but something is strange with the units used for the figure size. It seems that it must be in inches? (I'm thinking of the figure.figsize value in matplotlibrc, for instance). Of course if one knows how long an inch is (apparently 2.5 cm) it's not difficult t

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Inches?

2007-11-03 Thread Olivier Verdier
This is much worse than I thought. The "inch" unit is used in many places in matplotlib. In particular in `figure` and `savefig`. Please, please consider allowing other units. Let me emphasise this once more: in Europe, and, I believe in most places around the world, one NEVER uses inches. Neither