Re: [Matplotlib-users] Arc reporting bogus bounding box?

[Eric F. <ef...@ha...>]

Jason Sewall wrote:

> While I'm at it, I might as well as about image dimensions vs. axes limits.
> 
> If I change ax.axis('equal') manually to the correct bounding box of
> the visible stuff (i.e. ax.axis([1.25, 5, 0, 6])), I then get an image
> that is distorted, presumably to fit some pre-set aspect ratio. Is
> there a way to fix this, too? I guess what I'd like is a way to say:
> "When you save or render this image, set the output image dimensions
> to be appropriate to aspect ratio x (usually 1:1 for me) and the
> current axis setting"

Use the Axes.set_aspect() method for full control of the aspect ratio, 
and of what gets changed to preserve that aspect ratio.

Eric


> 
> I've used matplotlib for more than a few projects, but this aspect of
> it has eluded me.
> 
> Thanks for all your help,
> Jason