Re: [Matplotlib-users] Save figure without surrounding frame

[Michael V. De P. <mde...@ma...>]

Arne,

I don't know about the "real" solution to this problem, but if you
want to go the route of "artificially" solving it with an image
library for post processing, you can check out Python Imaging Library:

http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/

Mike

On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 02:36:55PM +0200, Arne.Bittig wrote:
> Sorry, maybe I didn't make that clear enough.
> 
> I was talking about a graph as in "graph theory". Since there is no 
> meaningful way to label the axes, and, in fact, no reason to show them 
> at all, the white space I was talking about is just where in your 
> picture there are the labels. So, looking at your example, what I'd like 
> to have is what's inside the black rectangle, i.e. a png where the blue 
> curve touches the top and the bottom of the image.
> 
> Arne
> 
> Ryan Krauss wrote:
> 
> >I don't think this is the default behavior.  If I do
> >
> >t=arange(0,1,0.01)
> >y=sin(2*pi*t)
> >plot(t,y)
> >xlabel('Time (sec)')
> >ylabel('Amplitude')
> >savefig('test.png')
> >
> >I get the attached png without the extra border you describe.
> >
> >Ryan
> >
> >
> >On 4/6/06, Arne.Bittig <arn...@in...> wrote:
> >
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>I am using matplotlib to draw graphs. When I try to save a picture
> >>(using savefig; usually as png, but at some point I might need eps files
> >>as well), the actual graph comprises less than the central 50% of the
> >>image, the rest of the image is wasted space.
> >>
> >>I already tried figure(frameon = False, facecolor = 'w') and box(False)
> >>to get rid of the redundant frame, but apparently it did not help (apart
> >>from removing the black frame, obviously, but what I want is to save
> >>only what is inside this frame).
> >>
> >>Any ideas how to do this? If not, does anyone know a python tool that
> >>handles pngs and would enable me to crop the picture in a second step?
> >>
> >>Arne
> >>
> >>
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