Re: [matplotlib-devel] Layout of subplots in output

[Stéfan v. d. W. <st...@su...>]

Hi Eric,

2009/9/28 Eric Firing <ef...@ha...>:
>> When saving plots (using plt.figsave and matplotlib from SVN)
>> consisting of subplots, the layout is a bit messed up.  As an example,
>> have a look at
>>
>> http://mentat.za.net/refer/segmentation.pdf
>
> Wow, that's really ugly!  I suspect that for anyone to provide any help
> on this, you will need to supply a minimal script to show what you are
> doing.  I take it you are starting with something that looks reasonable
> on the screen, but comes out quite different when you save it?

I narrowed the problem down to this line:

matplotlib.rc('figure', dpi=300)

Does it do some magic behind the scenes?

Attached is the script that produces this:

http://mentat.za.net/refer/badplot.pdf

I'm running 1.0.svn on OSX Snow Leopard, Python 2.6 and NumPy dev.

Regards
Stéfan