Adjusting font and graph size to fit in a specific dimension

[dibs439]

Dear Author,

I have been able to generate charts with help from your end previously. At present the graph is generating at the height-width specific in the command. However, some part of the image is getting cut-off. And overall look and feel needs some adjustment. The current and expected output is attached for your reference. I would like the some inputs regarding:

1. How to make the bars thinner lie in the expected.png
2. Currently both bars are not showing side-by-side but they are overlapping.
3. How to make the legends smaller
4. Y-axis should show more steps.

I am using the following command:

sudo graph source.csv --bar --width 0.4 --title 'Title' --offset 0.2,0.2 --color='#f6b4be,#e1072f' --fontsize=12 --label-fontsize=8 --figsize=634x117 --xlabel-fontsize=10 --ylabel-fontsize=8 -o dest.png

Any inputs on any of the points will be highly appreciated.

[dibs439]

Sir any thoughts on this?

[mcastorina]

Yes, creating bar graphs with the tool is not very intuitive (has been on my todo list for awhile)

1. --width controls the bar width
2. You need to set the offset manually to have both bars show; generally one is negative the other is positive and they should be half the --width value
   • For your example, it would be --offset=-0.2,0.2
3. No support for this yet -- --fontsize does nothing #18
4. --yrange min:max to control the start and end values of the y-axis; --yscale scale for the scaling (in other words.. --yscale 500 will draw a line every 500 y units

[mcastorina]

A workaround for all of the sizing problems would be to remove --figsize, then use imagemagick to resize the final image to fit your needs.

[mcastorina]

I have pushed an update for 3. You should be able to use --fontsize to set the global font size. This is in version 0.1.6

[dibs439]

The issue has been resolved thanks a lot!