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

[Sterling S. <sm...@fu...>]

For those who wonder what he means: 

on the left is TkAgg; on the right is png.

-Sterling

On Sep 3, 2015, at 1:13PM, Richard Stanton <st...@ha...> wrote:

> 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
> 
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