How to make pylab.savefig() save image for 'maximized' window instead of default size

Question

I am using pylab in matplotlib to create a plot and save the plot to an image file. However, when I save the image using pylab.savefig( image_name ), I find tha

Answer 1

I think you need to specify a different resolution when saving the figure to a file:

fig = matplotlib.pyplot.figure()
# generate your plot
fig.savefig("myfig.png",dpi=600)

Specifying a large dpi value should have a similar effect as maximizing the GUI window.