Re: [Matplotlib-users] Shadows are really large in exported PNG file

[Richard S. <st...@ha...>]

A quick follow-up: if I export to a jpg file, I get the same huge shadow. If I export to a PDF file, the shadow looks much more like it does on the screen.


> On Sep 3, 2015, at 1:07 PM, Richard Stanton <st...@ha...> wrote:
> 
> I’m trying to create a pie chart for a presentation. If I turn on shadows, they look fine on the screen (in an IPython notebook), but when I export the file to a PNG file, the shadow is way larger, and looks pretty ugly. Is this a bug? And is there a way to shrink the size of the shadow? 
> 
> Here’s some sample code that shows the problem:
> 
> import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
> numbers = [4380.0, 2474.0, 158]
> explode=(0, 0, 0.5)
> plt.pie(numbers, explode=explode,shadow=True)
> plt.axis('equal')
> plt.savefig(‘grap.png’, dpi=400)
> 
> Thanks for any suggestions.
> 
> By the way, I’m using Matplotlib version 1.4.3 with the Anaconda distribution under OS X.
> 
> Richard Stanton