Original report at SourceForge, opened Wed Dec 2 11:03:39 2009

If I set figsize to 8.3, 5.8 or to 5.8, 4.1, i.e. to landscape a5 or a6 (I have not checked the others), than eps saving makes troubles.
Namely bounding box is determined incorrectly and I see only part of my figure with evince (e.g.). If I slightly change figsize, e.g. to 5.8, 4, than everything works fine. You will see an example of a saved a6 in a6.eps and an example of a figure with smaller size in smaller.eps.

SourceForge Comments

On Sat Jun 5 14:41:26 2010, leejjoon wrote:

It only happens when text.usetex==True

I tracked down this to a possible issue in "convert_psfrags" step. Somehow, when figsize of 8.3,5.8 is set, the dvips within the convert_psfrags results in a ps file in landscape, and the final output ends up with a wrong bounding box.

I tried to find a way to prevent the page rotation, but couldn't.

In r8385, I implemented somewhat ad hoc workaround. It checks if the result of convert_psfrags is in landscape, and try to correct it during the pstoeps step.

http://matplotlib.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/matplotlib/trunk/matplotlib/lib/matplotlib/backends/backend_ps.py?r1=8385&r2=8384&pathrev=8385

Given the ad hoc nature of the workaround, I keep this ticket open. But I'm moving this to a feature request.

-JJ

On Wed Dec 2 11:06:13 2009, sboz wrote:

Yes, my backend is GTKAgg. And here are my settings:
{'agg.path.chunksize': 0,
'axes.axisbelow': True,
'axes.edgecolor': 'black',
'axes.facecolor': 'white',
'axes.formatter.limits': [-3, 3],
'axes.grid': False,
'axes.hold': True,
'axes.labelcolor': 'black',
'axes.labelsize': 12.0,
'axes.linewidth': 1.2,
'axes.titlesize': 12.0,
'axes.unicode_minus': True,
'axes3d.grid': True,
'backend': 'GTKAgg',
'backend_fallback': True,
'cairo.format': 'png',
'contour.negative_linestyle': 'dashed',
'datapath': '/usr/share/matplotlib/mpl-data',
'docstring.hardcopy': False,
'figure.autolayout': False,
'figure.dpi': 120.0,
'figure.edgecolor': 'white',
'figure.facecolor': '0.85',
'figure.figsize': [5.7999999999999998, 4.0999999999999996],
'figure.subplot.bottom': 0.10000000000000001,
'figure.subplot.hspace': 0.20000000000000001,
'figure.subplot.left': 0.125,
'figure.subplot.right': 0.90000000000000002,
'figure.subplot.top': 0.90000000000000002,
'figure.subplot.wspace': 0.20000000000000001,
'font.cursive': ['Zapf Chancery'],
'font.family': 'serif',
'font.fantasy': ['Comic Sans MS',
'Chicago',
'Charcoal',
'ImpactWestern',
'fantasy'],
'font.monospace': ['Computer Modern Typewriter', 'Courier'],
'font.sans-serif': ['Computer Modern Sans Serif', 'Helvetica', 'Avant Garde'],
'font.serif': ['Computer Modern Roman',
'Times',
'Palatino',
'New Century Schoolbook',
'Bookman'],
'font.size': 21.0,
'font.stretch': 'normal',
'font.style': 'normal',
'font.variant': 'normal',
'font.weight': 'normal',
'grid.color': 'black',
'grid.linestyle': ':',
'grid.linewidth': 0.5,
'image.aspect': 'equal',
'image.cmap': 'hot',
'image.interpolation': 'bilinear',
'image.lut': 1024,
'image.origin': 'upper',
'image.resample': False,
'interactive': True,
'legend.borderaxespad': 0.5,
'legend.borderpad': 0.40000000000000002,
'legend.columnspacing': 2.0,
'legend.fancybox': False,
'legend.fontsize': 12.0,
'legend.handlelength': 2.0,
'legend.handletextpad': 0.80000000000000004,
'legend.isaxes': True,
'legend.labelspacing': 0.5,
'legend.loc': 'upper right',
'legend.markerscale': 1.0,
'legend.numpoints': 1,
'legend.shadow': False,
'lines.antialiased': True,
'lines.color': 'blue',
'lines.dash_capstyle': 'butt',
'lines.dash_joinstyle': 'round',
'lines.linestyle': '-',
'lines.linewidth': 3.0,
'lines.marker': 'None',
'lines.markeredgewidth': 0.5,
'lines.markersize': 11.0,
'lines.solid_capstyle': 'projecting',
'lines.solid_joinstyle': 'round',
'maskedarray': 'obsolete',
'mathtext.bf': 'serif:bold',
'mathtext.cal': 'cursive',
'mathtext.default': 'it',
'mathtext.fallback_to_cm': True,
'mathtext.fontset': 'cm',
'mathtext.it': 'serif:italic',
'mathtext.rm': 'serif',
'mathtext.sf': 'sans-serif',
'mathtext.tt': 'monospace',
'numerix': 'obsolete',
'patch.antialiased': True,
'patch.edgecolor': 'k',
'patch.facecolor': 'b',
'patch.linewidth': 1.0,
'path.simplify': True,
'path.simplify_threshold': 0.1111111111111111,
'pdf.compression': 6,
'pdf.fonttype': 3,
'pdf.inheritcolor': False,
'pdf.use14corefonts': False,
'plugins.directory': '.matplotlib_plugins',
'polaraxes.grid': True,
'ps.distiller.res': 6000,
'ps.fonttype': 3,
'ps.papersize': 'a6',
'ps.useafm': False,
'ps.usedistiller': 'xpdf',
'savefig.dpi': 300.0,
'savefig.edgecolor': 'white',
'savefig.facecolor': 'white',
'savefig.orientation': 'landscape',
'svg.embed_char_paths': True,
'svg.image_inline': True,
'svg.image_noscale': False,
'text.color': 'black',
'text.dvipnghack': None,
'text.fontangle': 'normal',
'text.fontsize': 'medium',
'text.fontstyle': 'normal',
'text.fontvariant': 'normal',
'text.fontweight': 'normal',
'text.latex.preamble': [''],
'text.latex.preview': False,
'text.latex.unicode': False,
'text.usetex': True,
'timezone': 'Europe/Berlin',
'tk.pythoninspect': False,
'tk.window_focus': False,
'toolbar': 'toolbar2',
'units': False,
'verbose.fileo': 'sys.stdout',
'verbose.level': 'helpful',
'xtick.color': 'k',
'xtick.direction': 'in',
'xtick.labelsize': 12.0,
'xtick.major.pad': 4.0,
'xtick.major.size': 8.0,
'xtick.minor.pad': 4.0,
'xtick.minor.size': 4.0,
'ytick.color': 'k',
'ytick.direction': 'in',
'ytick.labelsize': 12.0,
'ytick.major.pad': 4.0,
'ytick.major.size': 8.0,
'ytick.minor.pad': 4.0,
'ytick.minor.size': 4.0}

SourceForge History

• On Sat Jun 5 14:41:26 2010, by leejjoon: resolution_id: 100
• On Sat Jun 5 14:41:26 2010, by leejjoon: data_type: 560723
• On Wed Dec 2 11:04:18 2009, by sboz: File Added: 353599: smaller.eps
• On Wed Dec 2 11:03:39 2009, by sboz: File Added: 353598: a6.eps