Re: [Matplotlib-users] making publication quality plots

[Chaitanya K. <ic...@gm...>]

Hi Paul,

Can you try
font.size: 10
legend.fontsize: small [or medium] in your rc file.

Defining the fontsize and then defining the fontsize of the xtick
labels, legend etc with respect to this font size seems to work better
than defining everything by hand.

Switching off the legend frame does seem to save some place. You can
use pylab.legend('your legend').draw_frame(False)

Cheers,
Chaitanya

On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 8:11 AM, Paul Anton Letnes
<pau...@gm...> wrote:
> On 30. mai. 2009, at 13.56, John Hunter wrote:
>
>> On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 3:50 AM, Paul Anton Letnes
>> <pau...@gm...> wrote:
>>> Hello again,
>>>
>>>
>>> I can set the figure size and font size, that all works fine.
>>> However,
>>> the legend is prohibitively large: for a plot 3 inches wide (why
>>> doesn't matplotlib use centimeters or similar?), the legend takes up
>>> about one third of the plot. This does not look too good...
>>
>> Please post a complete example.  As for inches vs cm, that is my fault
>> --  I can't remember if it was for matlab compatibility, or due to my
>> provincial ways this side of the pond.
>>
>> JDH
>
> Hi,
>
> This is my function which does the plotting. The "coeffarr" is a 2D
> array (function uses 7 first columns) with first column being
> frequencies, other columns being real/imag part of whatever I'm
> plotting.
> #################
> import matplotlib
> matplotlib.use('ps')
> import pylab
> def plot(coeffarr):
>     'Do the actual plotting.'
>     nfreqs, ncoeffs = coeffarr.shape
>     legends = []
>     for i in range(1, 6, 2): # real part columns
>         pylab.plot(coeffarr[:,0], coeffarr[:,i], RE_STYLE)
>         legends.append('l = %i' % int((i + 1) / 2))
>         pylab.plot(coeffarr[:,0], coeffarr[:,i+1], IM_STYLE)
>         legends.append('l = %i' % int((i + 1) / 2))
>     pylab.legend(legends)
>     pylab.xlabel('Frequency [eV]')
>     pylab.ylabel('$A_{lm}R^{-l-1}$')
>     pylab.savefig(PLOTFILE)
> ####################
> My matplotlibrc file is essentially this:
> ####################
> backend       : MacOSX # added by paulanto on 16. feb. 08
> numerix      : numpy  # numpy, Numeric or numarray
> lines.linewidth   : 1.0     # line width in points
> font.family         : serif
> font.size           : 10.0
> text.usetex         : True
> axes.linewidth      : 1.0     # edge linewidth
> legend.fontsize      : 10.0
> figure.figsize   : 3.0, 2.3    # figure size in inches
> ####################
>
> Is this complete enough? If you do the plot, you'll see that the plot
> is about one column wide (7 cm-ish) and that the legend is relatively
> large. I made similar size plots in Gnuplot before, at font size 10,
> but the legend was somehow less dominant.
>
> Also, will it help getting rid of the rectangle?
>
>
> cheers,
> Paul.
>
>
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