Re: [Matplotlib-users] Watermarking figures/axes

[Anthony F. <ant...@gm...>]

On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 3:00 AM,  <Jou...@xt...> wrote:
> "Anthony Floyd" <ant...@gm...> writes:
>
>  > I would like to 'watermark' a plot. That is, display an image 'under'
>  > several lines. [...] I've tried using figure.figimage, but that only
>
> > draws the watermark 'outside' the plot area. Fair enough.
>
>  The background of the axes object is called a "frame", and you want to
>  not draw it at all (pass frameon=False to add_axes) or make it
>  translucent:
>
>  fig=figure(...)
>  fig.figimage(...)
>  ax=fig.add_subplot(...)
>  ax.get_frame().set_alpha(0.5)
>

Thanks!  That essentially works as expected.

Anthony.