Howdy y'all!
I'm trying to make a publication quality plot for a two-column latex article. I'm using latex for text processing, so the plot quality itself is impeccable. However, as I scale the plot size down, the legend becomes extremely large compared to the plot itself. Has anyone solved this problem in a good manner? I'm not willing to make do without the legend.
cheers,
Paul.
Hi,
I usually fix the size of the figure when I produce it. I use rcparams
below for a single column plot. This usually solves the problem. What
you see is what you get in the final document if you use the same size
of the figure as used to produce it.
def paper_single():
plt.rc('figure', figsize=(3.375,3.375))
plt.rc('figure.subplot', left=0.15, right=0.97, bottom=0.1, top=0.95)
plt.rc('lines', linewidth=1.5)
plt.rc('font', size=10.0)
plt.rc('xtick', labelsize='small')
plt.rc('ytick', labelsize='small')
plt.rc('legend', fontsize='medium')
Cheers,
Chaitanya
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 5:25 PM, Paul Anton Letnes <paul.anton.letnes@...287...> wrote:
Howdy y'all!
I'm trying to make a publication quality plot for a two-column latex
article. I'm using latex for text processing, so the plot quality
itself is impeccable. However, as I scale the plot size down, the
legend becomes extremely large compared to the plot itself. Has
anyone solved this problem in a good manner? I'm not willing to make
do without the legend.cheers,
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The major determinant of the legend is the fontsize, so if you want to
make a small figure in inches, you may want to make the legend font
smaller
import matplotlib.font_manager as font_manager
leg = ax.legend(loc='upper left', prop=font_manager.FontProperties(size=10))
JDH
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 10:25 AM, Paul Anton Letnes <paul.anton.letnes@...287...> wrote:
I'm trying to make a publication quality plot for a two-column latex
article. I'm using latex for text processing, so the plot quality
itself is impeccable. However, as I scale the plot size down, the
legend becomes extremely large compared to the plot itself. Has
anyone solved this problem in a good manner? I'm not willing to make
do without the legend.