Stephen, In your script, you give ax.minorticks_on but you need to call that function for anything to occur ax.minorticks_on()
Also, did you see http://matplotlib.org/examples/pylab_examples/axes_props.html in case your original question was not answered. -Sterling On Jun 1, 2015, at 1:24PM, step...@theboulets.net wrote: > I only see that you added "plt.show()", but neither the grid or the axis > labels are showing up. > >> Here is what I see with a couple of things modified ? >> did you expect something else ? >> >> from matplotlib.backends.backend_pdf import PdfPages >> import matplotlib.pyplot as plt >> import numpy as np >> >> fig = plt.figure() >> ax = fig.add_subplot(1,1,1) >> >> x = np.linspace(0,10,50) >> y = np.sin(x) >> >> with PdfPages('grid_test.pdf') as pdf: >> plt.clf() >> >> plt.clf() >> plt.plot(x,y) >> leg = plt.legend(['legend 1']) >> plt.title('Sample title') >> ax.set_ylabel('Sample ylabel') >> ax.set_xlabel('Sample xlabel') >> >> ax.set_xticks(np.arange(0, 10, 20)) >> ax.set_xticks(np.arange(0, 10, 5), minor=True) >> ax.set_yticks(np.arange(-1,1,20)) >> ax.set_yticks(np.arange(-1,1,20), minor=True) >> >> ax.minorticks_on >> plt.show() >> >> pdf.savefig() >> >> >> [cid:8C80F2A2-AD50-4E09-B0EF-0596312F5093@ornl.gov] >> >> >> >> On Jun 1, 2015, at 2:49 PM, >> <step...@theboulets.net<mailto:step...@theboulets.net>> >> wrote: >> >> I am having an issue with the grid not appearing that I cannot figure out. >> Can anyone help? Thanks. --StephenB >> >> from matplotlib.backends.backend_pdf import PdfPages >> import matplotlib.pyplot as plt >> import numpy as np >> >> fig = plt.figure() >> ax = fig.add_subplot(1,1,1) >> >> x = np.linspace(0,10,50) >> y = np.sin(x) >> >> with PdfPages('grid_test.pdf') as pdf: >> plt.clf() >> >> plt.clf() >> plt.plot(x,y) >> leg = plt.legend(['legend 1']) >> plt.title('Sample title') >> ax.set_ylabel('Sample ylabel') >> ax.set_xlabel('Sample xlabel') >> >> ax.set_xticks(np.arange(0, 10, 20)) >> ax.set_xticks(np.arange(0, 10, 5), minor=True) >> ax.set_yticks(np.arange(-1,1,20)) >> ax.set_yticks(np.arange(-1,1,20), minor=True) >> >> ax.minorticks_on >> >> pdf.savefig() >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> _______________________________________________ >> Matplotlib-users mailing list >> Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net<mailto:Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net> >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users >> >> >> > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Matplotlib-users mailing list > Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
