Shadows are really large in exported PNG file

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’s some sample code that shows the problem:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
numbers = [4380.0, 2474.0, 158]
explode=(0, 0, 0.5)
plt.pie(numbers, explode=explode,shadow=True)
plt.axis('equal')
plt.savefig(‘grap.png’, dpi=400)

Thanks for any suggestions.

By the way, I’m using Matplotlib version 1.4.3 with the Anaconda distribution under OS X.

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.

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On Sep 3, 2015, at 1:07 PM, Richard Stanton <stanton@...4358...> wrote:

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’s some sample code that shows the problem:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
numbers = [4380.0, 2474.0, 158]
explode=(0, 0, 0.5)
plt.pie(numbers, explode=explode,shadow=True)
plt.axis('equal')
plt.savefig(‘grap.png’, dpi=400)

Thanks for any suggestions.

By the way, I’m using Matplotlib version 1.4.3 with the Anaconda distribution under OS X.

Richard Stanton

For those who wonder what he means:
PastedGraphic-38.png

on the left is TkAgg; on the right is png.

-Sterling

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On Sep 3, 2015, at 1:13PM, Richard Stanton <stanton@…4358…> 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 screen.

On Sep 3, 2015, at 1:07 PM, Richard Stanton <stanton@…4358…> wrote:

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’s some sample code that shows the problem:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
numbers = [4380.0, 2474.0, 158]
explode=(0, 0, 0.5)
plt.pie(numbers, explode=explode,shadow=True)
plt.axis(‘equal’)
plt.savefig(‘grap.png’, dpi=400)

Thanks for any suggestions.

By the way, I’m using Matplotlib version 1.4.3 with the Anaconda distribution under OS X.

Richard Stanton


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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

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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 is png.

-Sterling

On Sep 3, 2015, at 1:13PM, Richard Stanton <stanton@...4358... > <mailto:stanton@…4358…>> 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 screen.

On Sep 3, 2015, at 1:07 PM, Richard Stanton <stanton@...4358... >>> <mailto:stanton@…4358…>> wrote:

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�s some sample code that shows the problem:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
numbers = [4380.0, 2474.0, 158]
explode=(0, 0, 0.5)
plt.pie(numbers, explode=explode,shadow=True)
plt.axis('equal')
plt.savefig(�grap.png�, dpi=400)

Thanks for any suggestions.

By the way, I�m using Matplotlib version 1.4.3 with the Anaconda distribution
under OS X.

Richard Stanton

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