Re: [Matplotlib-users] Scale legend box border, dashed and dotted lines when the figure size is changed

[Jouni K. S. <jk...@ik...>]

Janne Blomqvist <blo...@gm...> writes:

> The problem I'm having is that as the figure is then pretty small, I
> can scale font sizes, axis sizes, line widths etc., but what I've been
> unable to figure out is how to scale dashed or dotted lines, as well
> as the thickness of the legend border box. 

It seems that there are no rc settings for these, but you can adjust
them as follows:

> a.plot(x, y, '--', label='foo bar')

Change this to 

  a.plot(x, y, '--', label='foo bar', dashes=(2,2))

The value of dashes is the number of points of ink followed by the
number of points of whitespace. It defaults to (6,6) for the '--'
linestyle (found in the dashd dictionary of backend_bases.py).

> a.legend()

Change this to

  lg = a.legend()
  fr = lg.get_frame()
  fr.set_lw(0.2)

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Jouni K. Seppänen
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