On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 7:04 AM, Maximilian Albert <maximilian.alb...@gmail.com> wrote: > [I sent this email a few weeks ago already, but I wasn't subscribed to > matplotlib-devel at the time and it seems that the message was never > approved by the moderator. So here comes my second attempt. :)] > > Hi all, > > this is my first post to this mailing list, so let me take the > opportunity to thank everyone involved for an amazing piece of > software and all the hard work you guys put into it! It is very much > appreciated indeed. > > I have a quick question/suggestion regarding the save() method in the > matplotlib.animation.Animation class. I recently produced an animation > in which I needed to set tight bounding boxes when saving the > individual frames. Obviously savefig() supports this, but there is no > way to pass this information to the Animation.save() method. Would it > make sense to let Animation.save() accept additional keyword arguments > which are simply passed on to savefig() in each step of the animation > loop? Or am I overlooking potential drawbacks of this approach? A > simple patch with this idea is attached. Feel free to use it as is or > to modify at will if you think this is useful. > > Many thanks and kind regards, > Max
Hi Max, Sounds like a great idea! Would you feel comfortable having a go at an implementation? You can make a pull request out of it. The rest of the developers can then deliberate and provide feedback for you. Best wishes, Damon -- Damon McDougall http://www.damon-is-a-geek.com B2.39 Mathematics Institute University of Warwick Coventry West Midlands CV4 7AL United Kingdom ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_sfd2d_oct _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
