Re: [Matplotlib-users] setting font of axes ticklabels and making labels not overlap

[Ryan M. <rm...@gm...>]

On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 1:23 PM, per freem <per...@gm...> wrote:

> hi all,
>
> two quick questions about plotting: i am trying to very simply reset the
> font family to be 'helvetica' for my figure, in particular for the
> ticklabels. i have tried using the following:
>
> def axes_square(plot_handle):
>     plot_handle.axes.set_aspect(1/plot_handle.axes.get_data_ratio())
>
> rcParams['font.family'] = 'Helvetica'
> p = matplotlib.font_manager.FontProperties()
> p.set_family('Helvetica')
> x = rand(20)
> ax = plot(x, x, 'bo', markeredgecolor='blue', mfc='none')
> axes_square(p)
>

Unrelated to your original question, is there a reason you need axes_square
there and can't just use:

ax.set_aspect('equal')

?

Ryan

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Ryan May
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