Re: [Matplotlib-users] Set width before saving

[Benjamin R. <ben...@ou...>]

On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 3:48 PM, Mario Fuest <mar...@ao...> wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> Currently i use these commands to layout and save my figures:
>
>  > figure
>  > ...
>  > gca.set_aspect('equal')
>  > gca.autoscale(tight=True)
>  > ...
>  > plt.savefig('fpp.png', bbox_inches='tight', pad_inches=0)
>
> I would like to set the width of this png file, how to do that? If
> savefig() does not support setting the width, maybe I can set the width
> of my xaxis?
>
> Thanks in advance, Keba
>
>
The size of the PNG will be based on the size of your figure object.  When
you create your figure, you can pass a figsize kwarg which takes a tuple of
width, height in inches (defaults to 8 x 6, I think).

fig = plt.figure(figsize=(10.0, 6.0))

I hope that helps!
Ben Root