Re: [Matplotlib-users] Shadows are really large in exported PNG file

2015-09-03 Thread Mark Voorhies
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

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Shadows are really large in exported PNG file

2015-09-03 Thread Sterling Smith
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 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 s

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Shadows are really large in exported PNG file

2015-09-03 Thread Richard Stanton
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 wrote: > > I’m trying to create a pie chart for a presentation. If I turn on shadows, > the

[Matplotlib-users] Shadows are really large in exported PNG file

2015-09-03 Thread Richard Stanton
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’