Re: [Matplotlib-users] Subplot Questions

[John H. <jd...@gm...>]

On Jan 31, 2008 12:54 AM, Eric Firing <ef...@ha...> wrote:

> Screens vary.  The screen on my laptop has about 130 dpi. Desktop flat
> panels will usually have a smaller value than that.  For example, an old
> "15-inch" flat panel with 1024/768 pixels is actually about 12 inches
> wide, so dpi=85.  The mpl default 'figure.dpi' of 80 is low; I doubt

And it is not unusual to have a different DPI in the horizontal and
vertical directions.  In order to support true physical sizes on the
screen, we would need to support different dpis in the two directions.

JDH