Re: [Matplotlib-users] gray backgound problem when saving eps

On Monday 06 March 2006 8:13 pm, Ryan Krauss wrote:
> I have rebulit from SVN.  It turns out that my problem only happens
> with really large fonts.  I am using Darren's new font size
> specification with font.size = 18 or 24 and
> everything else set to medium or large:
> axes.titlesize      : large      # fontsize of the axes title
> axes.labelsize      : medium      # fontsize of the x any y labels
> xtick.labelsize      : medium     # fontsize of the tick labels
> ytick.labelsize      : medium     # fontsize of the tick labels
> legend.fontsize : medium
>
> (I really like that new size scheme Darren.)
>
> with font.size = 18, things are o.k.  with 24, they are clipped on the
> screen, in the pdf, and even a little in the png.
>
> This may be closely related to what Steve just posted.

I think you will get better results by manually positioning your axes in the 
figure window. MPL only knows to fill the specified figure window with the 
gray background, but since your text runs over, it causes problems.

Darren