Re: [matplotlib-devel] Inches?

2007-10-28 Thread Eric Firing
Coincidentally, I was just thinking about this a couple days ago, when reviewing the units kwarg of the colorbar. I decided then that adding a cm option just wasn't worth even the small amount of extra code; inches are fairly deeply embedded, as witness the standard "dpi" way of specifying pix

[matplotlib-devel] Inches?

2007-10-28 Thread Olivier Verdier
Hi! I really enjoy using matplotlib but something is strange with the units used for the figure size. It seems that it must be in inches? (I'm thinking of the figure.figsize value in matplotlibrc, for instance). Of course if one knows how long an inch is (apparently 2.5 cm) it's not difficult t