On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Tomasz Koziara <t.kozi...@civil.gla.ac.uk> wrote: > but then axis labels or even numbering gets cut off. On the other hand > playing with: >
You need to manually adjust subplot parameters http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/api/pyplot_api.html?highlight=subplots_adjust#matplotlib.pyplot.subplots_adjust > plt.axes().set_aspect (2.0) > > does amazingly strange things. The explanation about what the number > in the set_aspect function should be is quite vogue in the > documentation. Hence my questions: > The aspect in axes is a aspect ratio of unit rectangle in the data coordinate. It is similar to a pixel aspec ratio (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixel_aspect_ratio). And, to me, the documentation makes sense. Let us know if you have any suggestion to improve the documentation though. > How to specify the aspect ratio of a figure (in my case containing > some bar plots) so that all remaining things (like axis labels) are > respected in the final result? As I said, you need to manually adjust the subplot parameters (or location of the axes). I guess this is more like a design decision. You may try to automate things, as in the example below. http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/faq/howto_faq.html#automatically-make-room-for-tick-labels While it only makes a room for ticklabels, you can extend this to axis labels and etc. Regards, -JJ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as DTrace, Predictive Self Healing and Award Winning ZFS. Get Solaris 10 NOW http://p.sf.net/sfu/solaris-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
