> Alan G Isaac wrote: >> I'm not understanding facecolor and edgecolor. >> In the code below (on Windows, with TkAgg) >> I get the facecolor displayed [onscreen] but not the >> edgecolor, and the saved figure shows *neither*. Why? >> (version is 0.98.1)
On 5/5/2009 2:48 PM Eric Firing apparently wrote: > It looks to me like a bug plus a feature. The bug is that in the screen > display, the edgecolor can get lost, presumably clipped. On my system > (linux, gtkagg) the edgecolor is visible only along the top. > The feature is that by design, the figure edgecolor and facecolor have > to be specified separately for saving versus screen display. This > prevents the screen default grey background from being printed. Maybe > there needs to be a savefig option, possibly set via rcParams, to defeat > this behavior and simply use the screen settings. At present, you can > set the savefig colors in rcParams or via savefig kwargs. Is this adequate? OK, we agree that edge color can be lost in onscreen display, apparently a bug in figure clipping. Now for the "feature". I did notice that savefig takes keyword args allowing us to set facecolor and edgecolor. I would call this "adequate" in some sense, but it is confusing. It is too implicit; I was not able to easily determine why may changes to the **figure** did not affect the file. (Note that I may not even view an onscreen display for some figures.) So I do not think it is a problem that the screen display and savefig have different defaults, presumably invoked but a default of None. But if the user sets the figure values, this should override the defaults (in both cases). Does that seem right? Thank you, Alan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanners deliver under ANY circumstances! Your production scanning environment may not be a perfect world - but thanks to Kodak, there's a perfect scanner to get the job done! With the NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanner you'll get full speed at 300 dpi even with all image processing features enabled. http://p.sf.net/sfu/kodak-com _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
