Re: [Matplotlib-users] Error During Install basemap-0.9.9

2008-08-15 Thread Andrew Straw
I don't know fedora, but is there a numpy-dev package or something similar? You'll need it to install numpy's header files. Zainal Abidin wrote: > Hi All, > I have an error during basemap-0.9.9 installation > > src/_geos.c:28:31: error: numpy/arrayobject.h: No such file or directory > and so on .

[Matplotlib-users] Error During Install basemap-0.9.9

2008-08-15 Thread Zainal Abidin
Hi All, I have an error during basemap-0.9.9 installation src/_geos.c:28:31: error: numpy/arrayobject.h: No such file or directory and so on .. I'm using fedora 8 numpy 1.1.0 scipy 0.6.0 shapelib 1.2.10 pyshapelib 0.3 help me please, is there n\any I should do? -- Zainal Abidin, S.Si Sub Bida

[Matplotlib-users] saving a figure

2008-08-15 Thread Elaine Angelino
hi there, in matlab, it is possible to save a matlab .fig file that can be opened directly by matlab (and which you can then interact with and edit, for example change the title, etc.). is it possible to do something analogous in matplotlib? thanks very much elaine --

[Matplotlib-users] savefig, too many open files

2008-08-15 Thread Evan Mason
Hi I have a script to plot and save a sequence of png images which I am using to prepare animations. This works fine, but I got the following error when preparing a particularly large number of files: --- record: 1015 --- record: 1016 /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/matplotlib/backends/backend

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Automatic margins

2008-08-15 Thread Mathieu Leplatre
> There is a FAQ showing how to do this for tick labels using the > bounding boxes of the labels. You could do something similar with the > title bounding box > > http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/doc/html/faq/howto_faq.html#how-do-i-automatically-make-room-for-my-tick-labels > > JDH > Thank you

Re: [Matplotlib-users] histogram hatching

2008-08-15 Thread izak marais
Hi, I've been generating many overlapping histograms with different hatch styles over the past month and a half. But now that I want to use them for a paper; I see that the hatch lines are illegibly faint in print. Is there a way to make them thicker? Any other suggestions for making overlapp

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Control space between bars

2008-08-15 Thread Mathieu Leplatre
Thank you so much Jae-Joon and Tony. You saved me so much time ! The whole transforms system was very obscure (to me !). >> trans = (ax.transScale + ax.transLimits).inverted() barspace = 0.32 #inches barstep = abscissa[1] - abscissa[0] trans = (ax.transScale + ax.transLimits).inverted() ba