Re: [Matplotlib-users] Can the postscript backend be persuaded to do landscape instead of portrait?

[John G. <jn...@eu...>]

John,

I've looked into this a bit more.

I think I'll have it working shortly, seems I have to do three things to
get landscape:

  * set the paper size
  * add a '90 rotate' incantation to the postscript at a suitable point
  * add a 'x y translate' command to adjust the origin 

Getting last bit right is making my head hurt, but I should have
something working by tomorrow.

John

On Tue, 2004-02-10 at 15:05, John Hunter wrote:
> >>>>> "John" == John Gill <jn...@eu...> writes:
> 
>     John> I have some plots I'd like to print out and they would make
>     John> better use of the paper if they were done landscape.
> 
>     John> Can the postscript backend do this?
> 
> Hi John,
> 
> I haven't had time to take a close look at this.  My initial
> suggestions is to experiment with the paper size
> 
> import matplotlib
> matplotlib.use('PS')
> import matplotlib.backends.backend_ps as backend_ps
> backend_ps.defaultPaperSize = 11,8.5  # default is 8.5, 11
> 
> You may also have to specify a landscape portrait at print time, or
> rotate it.
> 
> I'll take a closer look later.
> 
> JDH
> 
> 
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