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

[Janne B. <blo...@gm...>]

On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 18:42, Jouni K. Seppänen <jk...@ik...> wrote:
> 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)

Thanks, this solved it. A bit annoying that it can't be done with rc
params, but hey, at least it works.


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Janne Blomqvist