Michael Hearne wrote: > All: I'm trying to make a map (using Basemap), and plot names of cities > on that map. I'd like to avoid "collisions" of city names (where the > bounding boxes of the text objects would overlap), but I'm having > trouble figuring out how I can do this without actually drawing the text > on the figure. > > I found this thread: > > http://osdir.com/ml/python.matplotlib.general/2005-02/msg00174.html > > which describes how to do it _after_ drawing the text on the plot. This > would only be useful to me if there were some way to un-draw the text, > which isn't something I know how to do either. >
Michael: Each Text instance that you add to the plot has a remove method that you can call to 'undraw' it. -Jeff > Figure resizing is not a problem for my application. > > Java has a FontMetrics class, which tells you how big a string will be > in a given font - is there an equivalent for Matplotlib? > > --Mike > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Matplotlib-users mailing list > Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users > -- Jeffrey S. Whitaker Phone : (303)497-6313 Meteorologist FAX : (303)497-6449 NOAA/OAR/PSD R/PSD1 Email : jeffrey.s.whita...@noaa.gov 325 Broadway Office : Skaggs Research Cntr 1D-113 Boulder, CO, USA 80303-3328 Web : http://tinyurl.com/5telg ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
