Re: [Matplotlib-users] Problems with matplotlib

[John H. <jdh...@ac...>]

>>>>> "Todd" == Todd Miller <jm...@st...> writes:

    >> * Well, here is my real problem. I need to generate EPS files
    >> of my pictures for use with TeX (MiKTeX). I'm having a lot of
    >> trouble with it (this includes problems with the GS conversion
    >> tool, but that is beyond the scope of this list). Basically,
    >> using TkAgg or the savefig method, I can generate a PS file
    >> with the figure. But the problem is that the figure does not
    >> show well - it is bigger than the generated page, so a very
    >> significant part of the figure is cut out. Is there anyway to
    >> resize the picture or tell matplotlib to fit the picture within
    >> specified dimensions (like some and some centimeters or inches
    >> height and width)?  Resizing the drawing window _did_ solve the
    >> problem, but then I can't generate the figures by scripting - I
    >> would have to manually resize everyone of them.

    Todd> I'm not sure it's made clear anywhere, but you can generate
    Todd> EPS by using the extension ".ep" or ".eps".

On earlier versions of matplotlib there was a figure sizing issue when
you saved from tkagg -> postscript or eps, but I thought this was
cleared up. Eg when I run examples/simple_plot.py with TkAgg backend
and then save test.eps, I don't see any figure size issues.

Are you using the latest version 0.53.1?  If so can you post a test
script that reproduces the eps figure size problem you describe.  In
the latter case I can probably fix it pronto.

JDH