Re: [Matplotlib-users] installation of matplotlib on OS X 10.5 with python.org Python 2.6

2010-08-17 Thread Friedrich Romstedt
2010/8/17 Stephen T. : > http://passingcuriosity.com/2009/installing-pil-on-mac-os-x-leopard/ That's a good thing to know when people run into /opt/ trouble of this kind ... Thanks > So I had in mind to try this with the matplotlib installation, but for some > reason the make command did not fail

Re: [Matplotlib-users] creating figures of exact size

2010-08-17 Thread Bala subramanian
Hi Tony, My mpl version is 0.98.5.2. I saved the figure using GUI. I just tried saving with savefig function. In that case, the size of the figure is exactly what i gave in figsize arguement. You question helped me. Thank you. Thanks, Bala On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 5:50 PM, Tony S Yu wrote: > > O

Re: [Matplotlib-users] creating figures of exact size

2010-08-17 Thread Tony S Yu
On Aug 17, 2010, at 11:02 AM, Bala subramanian wrote: > Friends, > > I am trying to make a figure for publication. I am making a double column > figure of 7inch as per journal guidelines. The figure comes out nicely but > the final size of the figure that is saved is not what i have given in

[Matplotlib-users] TeX fails in general

2010-08-17 Thread Paul Anton Letnes
Hello everyone. If I try to use LaTeX for text processing (i.e. text.usetex : True in my matplotlibrc), I get a cryptic LaTeX error which didn't use to be there before. I get the same problem when using matplotlib-0.98.5 which I compiled from source, and matplotlib-1.0.0 from macports. My pytho

[Matplotlib-users] creating figures of exact size

2010-08-17 Thread Bala subramanian
Friends, I am trying to make a figure for publication. I am making a double column figure of 7inch as per journal guidelines. The figure comes out nicely but the final size of the figure that is saved is not what i have given in 'figsize'. It is 10inch X 5.38 inch. How can i make mpl to create the

Re: [Matplotlib-users] How to improve colorbar scaling?

2010-08-17 Thread Jeremy Conlin
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 6:13 PM, Jae-Joon Lee wrote: > Using the set_powerlimits method didn't help? I couldn't get set_powerlimits or set_scientific to change anything in my colorbar scaling. If I used setOffset(False) then there was no scaling; an improvement, but not ideal. > > As far as I k

Re: [Matplotlib-users] installation of matplotlib on OS X 10.5 with python.org Python 2.6

2010-08-17 Thread Stephen T .
Hi Friedrich, Thanks for your help. Just thought I would follow up to say that it appears to be working now. I am not sure what was different this time and last - my libxml file still points to the one with the architecture shown below, but I had come across this post about changing the targete