Re: [Matplotlib-users] figure aspect ratio

[Jae-Joon L. <lee...@gm...>]

On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Tomasz Koziara
<t.k...@ci...> wrote:
> but then axis labels or even numbering gets cut off. On the other hand
> playing with:
>

You need to manually adjust subplot parameters

http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/api/pyplot_api.html?highlight=subplots_adjust#matplotlib.pyplot.subplots_adjust

> plt.axes().set_aspect (2.0)
>
> does amazingly strange things. The explanation about what the number
> in the set_aspect function should be is quite vogue in the
> documentation. Hence my questions:
>

The aspect in axes is a aspect ratio of unit rectangle in the data
coordinate. It is similar to a pixel aspec ratio
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixel_aspect_ratio).
And, to me, the documentation makes  sense. Let us know if you have
any suggestion to improve the documentation though.


> How to specify the aspect ratio of a figure (in my case containing
> some bar plots) so that all remaining things (like axis labels) are
> respected in the final result?

As I said, you need to manually adjust the subplot parameters (or
location of the axes). I guess this is more like a design decision.


You may try to automate things, as in the example below.

http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/faq/howto_faq.html#automatically-make-room-for-tick-labels

While it only makes a room for ticklabels, you can extend this to axis
labels and etc.

Regards,

-JJ