.. _pylab_examples-customize_rc: pylab_examples example code: customize_rc.py ============================================ .. plot:: /home/mdboom/Work/builds/matplotlib/doc/mpl_examples/pylab_examples/customize_rc.py :: """ I'm not trying to make a good looking figure here, but just to show some examples of customizing rc params on the fly If you like to work interactively, and need to create different sets of defaults for figures (eg one set of defaults for publication, one set for interactive exploration), you may want to define some functions in a custom module that set the defaults, eg def set_pub(): rc('font', weight='bold') # bold fonts are easier to see rc('tick', labelsize=15) # tick labels bigger rc('lines', lw=1, color='k') # thicker black lines (no budget for color!) rc('grid', c='0.5', ls='-', lw=0.5) # solid gray grid lines rc('savefig', dpi=300) # higher res outputs Then as you are working interactively, you just need to do >>> set_pub() >>> subplot(111) >>> plot([1,2,3]) >>> savefig('myfig') >>> rcdefaults() # restore the defaults """ from pylab import * subplot(311) plot([1,2,3]) # the axes attributes need to be set before the call to subplot rc('font', weight='bold') rc('xtick.major', size=5, pad=7) rc('xtick', labelsize=15) # using aliases for color, linestyle and linewidth; gray, solid, thick rc('grid', c='0.5', ls='-', lw=5) rc('lines', lw=2, color='g') subplot(312) plot([1,2,3]) grid(True) rcdefaults() subplot(313) plot([1,2,3]) grid(True) show() Keywords: python, matplotlib, pylab, example, codex (see :ref:`how-to-search-examples`)