Set width before saving

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Hi there,

Currently i use these commands to layout and save my figures:

> figure
> ...
> gca.set_aspect('equal')
> gca.autoscale(tight=True)
> ...
> plt.savefig('fpp.png', bbox_inches='tight', pad_inches=0)

I would like to set the width of this png file, how to do that? If
savefig() does not support setting the width, maybe I can set the width
of my xaxis?

Thanks in advance, Keba

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The size of the PNG will be based on the size of your figure object. When you create your figure, you can pass a figsize kwarg which takes a tuple of width, height in inches (defaults to 8 x 6, I think).

fig = plt.figure(figsize=(10.0, 6.0))

I hope that helps!
Ben Root

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On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 3:48 PM, Mario Fuest <mariofuest@…2015…915…> wrote:

Hi there,

Currently i use these commands to layout and save my figures:

figure

…

gca.set_aspect(‘equal’)

gca.autoscale(tight=True)

…

plt.savefig(‘fpp.png’, bbox_inches=‘tight’, pad_inches=0)

I would like to set the width of this png file, how to do that? If

savefig() does not support setting the width, maybe I can set the width

of my xaxis?

Thanks in advance, Keba

3

With an existing Figure instance, you can also call

fig.set_figwidth(width_inches)

before saving (or set_figheight or set_size_inches)

http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/api/figure_api.html#matplotlib.figure.Figure

JDH

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On Feb 28, 2012, at 4:03 PM, Benjamin Root <ben.root@...1304...> wrote:

The size of the PNG will be based on the size of your figure object. When you create your figure, you can pass a figsize kwarg which takes a tuple of width, height in inches (defaults to 8 x 6, I think).

fig = plt.figure(figsize=(10.0, 6.0))

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Hi there,

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John Hunter <jdh2358@...287...> schrieb am Wed, 29. Feb 07:04: > On Feb 28, 2012, at 4:03 PM, Benjamin Root <ben.root@...1304...> wrote:

> The size of the PNG will be based on the size of your figure object. When you create your figure, you can pass a figsize kwarg which takes a tuple of width, height in inches (defaults to 8 x 6, I think).
>
> fig = plt.figure(figsize=(10.0, 6.0))

With an existing Figure instance, you can also call

fig.set_figwidth(width_inches)

before saving (or set_figheight or set_size_inches)

http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/api/figure_api.html#matplotlib.figure.Figure

That helps, thanks a lot! :slight_smile:

Regards, Keba