[yt-users] Fonts size in the Projection plot.

Jun-Hwan Choi jhchoi at pa.uky.edu
Mon Mar 25 20:38:37 PDT 2013


Dear Nathan,

Thank you for you help.
However, when I try to follow your suggestion, yt complains that
>> slc.set_font(font_dict)
>> AttributeError: 'ProjectionPlot' object has no attribute 'set_font'
Meanwhile, I try your approach only for annotate_text then it works.
So, now I can control the text size but I still can not find how increase x
y label and tick size.
Is there other way to do so?

Thank you,
Junhwan


On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 10:46 PM, Nathan Goldbaum <nathan12343 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi Junhwan,
>
> You can set the font properties using the set_font function:
>
> >>> slc = SlicePlot(pf, 'x', 'Density')
> >>> font_dict = {'family':'sans-serif', 'style':'italic',
>                         'weight':'bold', 'size':24}
> >>> slc.set_font(font_dict)
>
> Here, font_dict is a dictionary of keywords that will be passed to the
> matplotlib FontProperties object for the plot.  For more details about
> FontProperties, take a look at the matplotlib documentation:
> http://matplotlib.org/api/font_manager_api.html#matplotlib.font_manager.FontProperties
>
> One caveat is that the axes labels use MathText which is tied to a special
> computer modern font that is bundled with matplotlib.  For that reason, you
> will only be able to adjust the size of the axes labels, not the font.
>
> Another caveat is that you cannot set the tick label color using set_font.
>  Instead, you'll need to iterate over the actual tick label objects as in
> this example from the docs:
> http://yt-project.org/doc/cookbook/simple_plots.html?highlight=dinosaurs#accessing-and-modifying-plots-directly
>
> Finally, you'll need to set the font properties for the text
> annotation separately:
>
> >>> slc.annotate_text((-45,42.5), "a)", data_coords=False, text_args =
> font_dict)
>
> The text_args keyword of annoate_text does accept color as a keyword, so
> you'll be able to pass it in with font_dict.
>
> The full list of allowed keywords for text_args is on this page from the
> matplotlib docs: http://matplotlib.org/users/text_props.html
>
> Hope that's helpful.  Sorry that's not as simple as it could be, this is
> one area of the plotting routines where it would be nice to simplify things.
>
> -Nathan
>
> On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 6:13 PM, Jun-Hwan Choi <jhchoi at pa.uky.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hi yt user,
>>
>> I make a very simple projection plot using following script:
>>
>> ==========
>> from yt.mods import *
>>
>> # Load the dataset.
>> pf = load("../RunDM1/DD0134/DD0134")
>> center = na.array([0.5,0.5,0.5,])
>>
>> # Making slice
>> slc = ProjectionPlot(pf, 2,'Density', center,(100, 'pc') , 'Density')
>> slc.annotate_text((-45,42.5), "a)", data_coords=False)
>> slc.save("Run1")
>> ==========
>>
>> It generate plot with x, y, z labels and ticks as well text "a)"
>> I would like to increase the font size of label, ticks, and text.
>> I also change the color of the text.
>> I think it is very basic operation, but I can not find the way.
>> Can anyone help me?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Junhwan
>>
>>
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Tel: (859) 897-6737        Fax: (859) 323-2846
Email: jhchoi at pa.uky.edu   URL: http://www.pa.uky.edu/~jhchoi
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