Re: [Matplotlib-users] eps without figure frame

[Christian K. <ck...@ho...>]

John Hunter wrote:
>>>>>>"Christian" == Christian Kristukat <ck...@ho...> writes:
> 
> 
>     Christian> Hi, I'm trying to create an eps file which does not
>     Christian> have a figure frame. I used figurePatch.fill = False to
>     Christian> prevent filling but there's still a white frame drawn
>     Christian> around the figure which is visible when putting it on a
>     Christian> coloured background.
> 
>     Christian> figurePatch.set_lw(0.0) didn't help neither.
> 
>     Christian> figure(frameon=False) seems to have no effect.
> 
> The standard trick is to set the figure facecolor and edgecolor to be
> the same.  For whatever reason, a linewidth of 0 is not handled
> consistently across ps drivers.
> 
> setp(figurePatch, facecolor=somecolor, edgecolor=somecolor, linewidth=0)

Indeed the frame line is not drawn in that case, but it is still beeing filled.
To prevent filling I tried:

f.figurePatch.fill = False
setp(f.figurePatch, facecolor='black', edgecolor='black', linewidth=0)

but now the frame line is back again - in white.

Any other ideas?

Christian