Re: [Matplotlib-users] picture quality of the figures

[Chris B. <Chr...@no...>]

Sascha wrote:
> Try changing the resolution to a value of 300 or 600 dpi. This should
> give you very high quality figures when using the Agg backend. The
> standard is 80 which is ok for screen display but for printing
> purposes you should use a higher value. See
> http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/matplotlib.pylab.html#-figure (dpi
> keyword argument).

Except that savefig() overrides the Figure dpi, so you need to pass the 
desired dpi in to the savefig function (or method):

savefig(filename, dpi=300)

-Chris

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