Re: [Matplotlib-users] problem with saving eps and ps with GTKAgg backend (and current head of SVN)

[Matthew A. <ma...@ph...>]

I was having the same problem, but the recent xpdf thread pointed me to 
a/the solution. I was able to successfully run your script by outputting 
as eps instead of ps (which produced truncated output, as you were 
experiencing).

Matt


On Thu, 10 May 2007, Johann Cohen-Tanugi wrote:

> Well, matplotlib starts with a canvas bigger than my screen (vertically only) 
> but in the end it seems to resize it so everything fits in. I can see the 
> whole drawing and the bottom toolbar. Again, saving in png or jpg works 
> perfectly.... and of course I checked that gv was not cutting the graph when 
> displaying it.
> I just tried to use GTK as a backend, and ipython tells me that there are 
> "non implemented" errors on my script....
> I attach it here.
> thanks!
> Johann
>
> Darren Dale wrote:
>> On Wednesday 09 May 2007 12:19:24 pm Johann Cohen-Tanugi wrote:
>> 
>>> I am creating a "big" drawing ( figure(figsize=(16,20)) ), and when I
>>> try to save it in eps/ps form, it mishandle the overall size and only
>>> save a portion of the drawing. Saving in png or jpg works fine though.
>>> Any idea?
>>> 
>> 
>> On my system, you cant create a figure that is larger than the monitor 
>> size, unless I use a non-gui backend like agg or ps. It doesnt matter 
>> whether I save an eps, png, or jpg. Also, make sure your postscript viewer 
>> is not truncating the page due to an inappropriate page size setting.
>> 
>> Darren
>>