Re: GraphicsGrid spacing
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- Subject: [mg94369] Re: GraphicsGrid spacing
- From: "sjoerd.c.devries at gmail.com" <sjoerd.c.devries at gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 03:46:00 -0500 (EST)
- References: <gho3et$dl$1@smc.vnet.net>
For reasons not entirely clear to me adding the option AspectRatio -> .
3 yields a plot with about the right amount of whitespace.
Cheers -- Sjoerd
On Dec 10, 11:51 am, janeywit <janey... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I have 2 box whisker plot images and I'd like to place one above the
> other in a GraphicsColumn format. This seems to work fine if the box
> whisker plot images only contain a small number of plots, but mine
> contain a lot of plots (i.e. they are very wide) and when I put them
> in the GraphicsColumn mathematica places a huge amount of white space
> around them. I want to export the image to disk and at the moment it
> is half whitespace.
> I have tried every possible option of spacing and sizing that I can
> think of and can't find a way to improve it. Please can somebody help
> me - otherwise I have to export the image and then alter it with Paint
> or something which is really not what I want to do.
> Many thanks in advance!
>
> Here is an example of what I mean:
>
> Needs["StatisticalPlots`"]
> list1 = {1, 3, 4, 5, 3, 5, 6, 4, 6, 7, 4, 6, 5, 3, 2}
> list2 = {7, 6, 7, 8, 6, 5, 7, 7, 6, 5, 4, 4, 6, 6, 4, 3}
> bwp1 = BoxWhiskerPlot[list1, list2, PlotRange -> {Automatic, All}]
> bwp2 = BoxWhiskerPlot[list1, list2, PlotRange -> {Automatic, {0, 5}}]
>
> (*Put two small images in a column.... it works fine*)
> GraphicsColumn[{bwp1, bwp2}]
>
> (*Now make larger images to test with*)
> bwp11 = BoxWhiskerPlot[list1, list2, list1, list2, list1, list2,
> list1, list2, list1, list2, list1, list2,
> PlotRange -> {Automatic, All}]
> bwp22 = BoxWhiskerPlot[list1, list2, list1, list2, list1, list2,
> list1, list2, list1, list2, list1, list2,
> PlotRange -> {Automatic, {0, 5}}]
>
> (*Now put the larger images in a column - a huge amount of whitespace
> appears around the images*)
> GraphicsColumn[{bwp11, bwp22}]