On Jul 30, 2010, at 10:54 AM, Damon McDougall wrote: > Hi, > > I'm interested in fiddling around with the matplotlib source. Let's say we > set up various things: > > from matplotlib.figure import Figure() > from matplotlib.backends.backend_pdf import FigureCanvasPdf as FigureCanvas > > fig = Figure() > canvas = FigureCanvas(fig) > ax = fig.add_subplot(1, 1, 1) > fig.savefig('asd.pdf', bbox_inches='tight') > > I would like to know what exactly happens when bbox_inches='tight' is passed > to savefig(). I've been searching in the figure.py source and nowhere can I > see the bbox_inches='tight' keyword being tested for in the savefig() method. > Having said that, all of the kwargs do get passed on to the > canvas.print_figure() method, so I looked in the backend_pdf.py file but > couldn't find a print_figure() method. Could someone point me in the right > direction? > > Regards, > -- Damon
That's funny: I was just looking at bbox_inches='tight' recently. You'll find the relevant section in matplotlib.backend_bases.print_figure. Best, -Tony ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Palm PDK Hot Apps Program offers developers who use the Plug-In Development Kit to bring their C/C++ apps to Palm for a share of $1 Million in cash or HP Products. Visit us here for more details: http://p.sf.net/sfu/dev2dev-palm _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel