Hi Daniel, this worked for me in IJulia...
using PyPlot
using PyCall
img = imread("ada.png");
fig = plt.figure()
ax = plt.Axes(fig,[0,0,1,1])
fig[:add_axes](ax)
ax[:set_axis_off]()
ax[:imshow](img,aspect="auto")
ax[:set_aspect](0.5)
plt.show()
Adrian.
On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 12:08 AM, Daniel Carrera <dcarr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I use PyPlot for my work. I normally manage to figure out how to do things
> by reading the Matplotlib documentation, but this time I am really stuck. I
> want to make a plot that has an unusual aspect ratio. I need it to be four
> times taller than it is wide (the plot is a 2D image). The candidate
> solution I found is the "set_aspect()" function from Matplotlib:
>
> http://matplotlib.org/examples/pylab_examples/aspect_loglog.html
>
> https://www.mail-archive.com/matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg16078.html
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7965743/python-matplotlib-setting-aspect-ratio
> http://matplotlib.org/api/axes_api.html#matplotlib.axes.Axes.set_aspect
>
>
> So, based on this, I looked for a function called "set_aspect()" or
> "aspect()", but there is none. I looked for an "aspect" parameter for the
> "axis()" command, but there does not appear to be one (hard to say for sure
> because "axis()" doesn't give an error if you pass a parameter it doesn't
> know about.
>
> Can anyone help me?
>
> Cheers,
> Daniel.
>
