Re: [Matplotlib-users] Suggestions for auto scaling fonts , etc for producing images at various scales

[Daryl H. <ak...@ia...>]

On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Paul Ivanov <piv...@gm...> wrote:

> I guess I'm not sure what you meant by the fonts looking 'nasty',
> so if font.size doesn't address your issue, could you post a
> small example that does the wrong thing, along with the type of
> output you were hoping to get.

Thanks for the responses and sorry to not be clear.  Here is an example script:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

fig = plt.figure(figsize=(8,8))

ax = fig.add_subplot(111)

ax.plot( [0,100], [0,100] )
ax.set_xlabel("Temperature after the sun goes down $^{\circ}F$")
ax.set_ylabel("Temperature when the sun goes up $^{\circ}F$")
ax.set_title("My Fancy Plot!!!")

fig.savefig('test.png', dpi=(40))


with 3 different outputs. First two numbers are figsize settings and
last is DPI.

In my perfect world, I would like to simple to this at the end of my script:

fig.savefig('thumbnail.png', .....)
fig.savefig('fullsize.png', ......)

and get two clean looking images.  If I have to rerun the script with
different options to get a thumbnail and then a fullsize, that is okay
too.  I just can't figure out what all needs to be tweeked / how to do
it..

thanks,
  daryl