Re: [Matplotlib-users] Font size and savefig

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

On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 11:24 PM, Jae-Joon Lee <lee...@gm...> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 11:09 PM, John Hunter <jd...@gm...> wrote:
> > If you want the relative fontsizes in the figure window and saved figure
> to
> > agree, pass the same "dpi" to the figure command and savefig command.
>
> John,
> I thought the font size (which is specified in points) is independent
> of dpi, i.e., font size in "pixel" actually scales with the dpi. I
> think it should be filed as a bug if the relative font size depends on
> the dpi.
>
> Anyhow, I just did a quick test and the (relative) font size does not
> seem to vary with dpi.


Hmm, I must have been confused.  In older versions of mpl, as you increased
the dpi the fonts looked larger in relation to the rest of the figure, and
that is what I was remembering.  I just ran a few tests and they do scale as
expected, so sorry for the noise