Change figure size and figure format in matplotlib [duplicate]
You can set the figure size if you explicitly create the figure with
plt.figure(figsize=(3,4))You need to set figure size before calling plt.plot()To change the format of the saved figure just change the extension in the file name. However, I don't know if any of matplotlib backends support tiff
You can change the size of the plot by adding this before you create the figure.
plt.rcParams["figure.figsize"] = [16,9]
The first part (setting the output size explictly) isn't too hard:
import matplotlib.pyplot as pltlist1 = [3,4,5,6,9,12]list2 = [8,12,14,15,17,20]fig = plt.figure(figsize=(4,3))ax = fig.add_subplot(111)ax.plot(list1, list2)fig.savefig('fig1.png', dpi = 300)fig.close()But after a quick google search on matplotlib + tiff, I'm not convinced that matplotlib can make tiff plots. There is some mention of the GDK backend being able to do it.
One option would be to convert the output with a tool like imagemagick's convert.
(Another option is to wait around here until a real matplotlib expert shows up and proves me wrong ;-)