[Matplotlib-users] Basemap white space

[Filipe P. A. F. <oc...@gm...>]

Hello list

I've trying for a while a "python only" solution to remove white spaces that
Basemap generate to keep the aspect ratio. I found these two threads that
explain  the issue better:

http://www.mail-archive.com/mat...@li.../msg14430.html
http://www.mail-archive.com/mat...@li.../msg14262.html

In the past I relied on  ImageMagick's "convert" command with the  "-trim
white" option for the job. However, just recently I came across with this
other list and a  PIL solution:

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/image-sig/2008-July/005092.html

Here is how I'm doing:

savefig('mapa.png', dpi=300)

from PIL import Image
im = Image.open("mapa.png")

def trim(im, border):
  from PIL import ImageChops
  bg = Image.new(im.mode, im.size, border)
  diff = ImageChops.difference(im, bg)
  bbox = diff.getbbox()
  if bbox:
      return im.crop(bbox)
  else:
      # found no content
      raise ValueError("cannot trim; image was empty")

im2=trim(im,'white')
im2.show()

This works and the aspect ratio is preserved, but as you can see, it is not
a very smart implementation.  I save and then reload it again...
any suggestions to improve this are welcome.

Also, I have not tried this on figures with labels and annotations.

Thanks for any input.

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