Michael Hearne wrote: > I am using Basemap, and trying to create two maps: > > One large-scale map, and a small-scale inset map of the world centered > on the location of the large-scale map. My ultimate goal is to create > a figure where the inset map is inserted into a corner of the > large-scale map. I can see two ways of doing this: > > 1) Create both as encapsulated postscript images separately, and put > them together in a later "compositing" process. (I'm doing this already). > 2) Create both as basemap instances, and then draw the smaller one on > top of the large-scale one. I have no idea how to do this. > > A problem I have encountered with the first method is that my image > background is set to white by default. I've tried to make it > transparent by doing the following: > > fig = figure(figsize=(5,5),frameon=False) #turn the frame off completely > fig.figurePatch.set_alpha(0.0) #tried setting this to 1.0 and 0.0, > neither works > > Method #2 would be cleaner, if I could do what I wanted to do in terms > of transparencies, but if not, I'll take method #1. > > Does anyone know if it is possible to set the image background > transparent for encapsulated postscript output? > > Thanks, > > Mike > >
Mike: Postscript doesn't support alpha transparency. It might work with PDF though. -Jeff -- Jeffrey S. Whitaker Phone : (303)497-6313 Meteorologist FAX : (303)497-6449 NOAA/OAR/PSD R/PSD1 Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] 325 Broadway Office : Skaggs Research Cntr 1D-124 Boulder, CO, USA 80303-3328 Web : http://tinyurl.com/5telg ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
