Any chance of further help?
John?
Hrafnkell
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Jeff Whitaker wrote:
Hrafnkell:
Had some time this morning, so I used John's method to create a working
Basemap example:
import matplotlib
matplotlib.use('Agg')
from mpl_toolkits.basemap import Basemap
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
# this example shows how to save a map
This will turn off the rendering of both the background rectangle as
well as all the ticks and their associated labels, ticklines and
gridlines. Perhaps Jeff can advise you vis-a-vis the basemap api what
the equivalent is
Ok, I tested your example and see what you mean.
But if I
Ok, I tried your last suggestion and sure enough it worked.
But it turns out to solve only half of my problem. I'd like to be able to
restore the background (using the Agg backend) and then use it further, i.e.
plot on it, without it disappearing.
Elaborating on my real use case, what I want to
Hi
I tried you suggestions but it didn't work out for me.
In the following code I try to save the axes and the grid from figure1 into
buffer and then restore it on figure2 but figure2.png turns out to be of an
empty canvas.
#!/usr/bin/env /opt/python/bin/python
# encoding: utf-8
import
Hi
I haven't managed to save a plot background into buffer to be able to
restore it later.
I use matplotlib to draw weather maps (see www.belgingur.is), and though the
weather constantly changes the outlines of the countries are the same for
every picture.
Currently I plot the coastlines anew for
