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 <[email protected]> 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monitor Your Dynamic Infrastructure at Any Scale With Datadog! Get real-time metrics from all of your servers, apps and tools in one place. SourceForge users - Click here to start your Free Trial of Datadog now! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=241902991&iu=/4140 _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
