Re: [Matplotlib-users] Rose plot example?

2007-11-01 Thread Jed Frechette
On Thu, 1 Nov 2007 Alan G Isaac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://www.mail-archive.com/matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg01221.html> > >hth, Ah, I sould be able to modify that to do what I need but it's to bad there isn't a more elegant way than remaping the data and faking the labels.

[Matplotlib-users] TkAgg freezing, problems with backend

2007-11-01 Thread John
I have strange behavior when using TkAgg on a script which produces plots repeatedly. On the first instance of the plotting, the Figure window is not interactive, and needs to be 'killed' by clicking the x in the top right (this is on XP, by the way). On subsequent calls, it seems fine. What's is

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Basemap help, imshow, transform_scaler

2007-11-01 Thread John
The default, TkAgg. I've tried the others as I have some strange behavior with TkAgg, but they don't work at all... In fact, I think I'll start another thread, because the problem I have is now predictable... I would be interested to see if there's a solution...

Re: [Matplotlib-users] IDL Font question

2007-11-01 Thread Andrew McLean
It depends exacly what you need, but this might help: Ghostscript comes with the Hershey fonts. You should be able to choose an appropriate font name in Matplotlib, e.g. Hershey-Gothic-English, and produce a Postscript file using an appropriate backend. You should then be able to convert that t

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Basemap help, imshow, transform_scaler

2007-11-01 Thread Eric Firing
John wrote: > Thanks Eric... > > Just a question, I've noticed that if I put enough resolution in lev_exp > (ie. lev_exp=arange(0,log10(z.max()),0.15) #or more is even nicer! Then > the file size gets quite large due to all the colors. Any suggestions? I > know its a separate issue... > > -

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Basemap help, imshow, transform_scaler

2007-11-01 Thread John
Thanks Eric... Just a question, I've noticed that if I put enough resolution in lev_exp (ie. lev_exp=arange(0,log10(z.max()),0.15) #or more is even nicer! Then the file size gets quite large due to all the colors. Any suggestions? I know its a separate issue... -john

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Rose plot example?

2007-11-01 Thread Alan G Isaac
http://www.mail-archive.com/matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg01221.html> hth, Alan Isaac - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log ev

Re: [Matplotlib-users] IDL Font question

2007-11-01 Thread Angus McMorland
On 01/11/2007, Jose Gomez-Dans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > Some colleagues have sent some plots which they generated using IDL > (boo!!! hiss!! :D), and they look quite dissimilar to my matplotlib > ones. I would like to mimic their layout as much as possible, which so > far is a success. Th

Re: [Matplotlib-users] IDL Font question

2007-11-01 Thread Gary Ruben
IDL uses the Hershey vector fonts The problem is that these are not trutype fonts, so the easiest solution is probably to find some free sans-serif font that looks close to Hershey on a fre