On 10/15/07, Joel B. Mohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > When I save a plot to a file (.eps), it saves with ungainly margins. It seems > like there is often a huge blank space at the top. I don't want to have an > axes > or frame in my finished output, but when I do turn on the axes and frame to > investigate the origins of this margin, it appears like it may be the fault of > the matplotlib leaving room for these elements even though I've turned them > off. > > Is there any way to do away with the huge margin? My final goal is to include > these graphics in a tex file and the blank space looks ugly. > > If there is guidance about a more recommended way to get sage graphics in a > tex > file, I'm certainly open to instruction on this point as well. I'm partial to > using the pstricks and the psfrag command to get pretty labels in the final > tex > output. The psfrag command handles the sage output graphics just fine, but > the > eps files from sage are gigantic (like 20 times larger) compared to similar > output from mathematica and I think the reason is the matplotlib puts a bunch > of > font information into the file. This is annoying since I'm going to ignore > all > that font information anyhow by using psfrag.
You should consider asking the same question on the matplotlib list. Also there is .sage/matplotlib/* config files, which have a big impact on fonts, etc. Also, make some sample graphics as eps using *just* matplotlib, to make sure Sage isn't doing something stupid. William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://sage.math.washington.edu/sage/ and http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
