This appears to be DPI dependent. Changing the last line of Richard's example to
plt.savefig("grap.png") gives a PNG with a shadow similar to that generated by TkAgg. --Mark On 09/03/2015 01:17 PM, Sterling Smith wrote: > For those who wonder what he means: > on the left is TkAgg; on the right is png. > > -Sterling > > On Sep 3, 2015, at 1:13PM, Richard Stanton <stan...@haas.berkeley.edu > <mailto:stan...@haas.berkeley.edu>> wrote: > >> A quick follow-up: if I export to a jpg file, I get the same huge shadow. If >> I >> export to a PDF file, the shadow looks much more like it does on the screen. >> >> >>> On Sep 3, 2015, at 1:07 PM, Richard Stanton <stan...@haas.berkeley.edu >>> <mailto:stan...@haas.berkeley.edu>> wrote: >>> >>> I’m trying to create a pie chart for a presentation. If I turn on shadows, >>> they look fine on the screen (in an IPython notebook), but when I export the >>> file to a PNG file, the shadow is way larger, and looks pretty ugly. Is this >>> a bug? And is there a way to shrink the size of the shadow? >>> >>> Here’s some sample code that shows the problem: >>> >>> import matplotlib.pyplot as plt >>> numbers = [4380.0, 2474.0, 158] >>> explode=(0, 0, 0.5) >>> plt.pie(numbers, explode=explode,shadow=True) >>> plt.axis('equal') >>> plt.savefig(‘grap.png’, dpi=400) >>> >>> Thanks for any suggestions. >>> >>> By the way, I’m using Matplotlib version 1.4.3 with the Anaconda >>> distribution >>> under OS X. >>> >>> Richard Stanton >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Monitor Your Dynamic Infrastructure at Any Scale With Datadog! >> Get real-time metrics from all of your servers, apps and tools >> in one place. >> SourceForge users - Click here to start your Free Trial of Datadog now! >> http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=241902991&iu=/4140 >> _______________________________________________ >> Matplotlib-users mailing list >> Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Monitor Your Dynamic Infrastructure at Any Scale With Datadog! > Get real-time metrics from all of your servers, apps and tools > in one place. > SourceForge users - Click here to start your Free Trial of Datadog now! > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=241902991&iu=/4140 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Matplotlib-users mailing list > Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monitor Your Dynamic Infrastructure at Any Scale With Datadog! Get real-time metrics from all of your servers, apps and tools in one place. SourceForge users - Click here to start your Free Trial of Datadog now! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=241902991&iu=/4140 _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users