Enthought Canopy Mayavi font size bug

Asked 7/11, 2013 at 0:9 Answered 13/11, 2013 at 21:39

The font size setting in Enthough Canopy Mayavi mlab appears to be broken.

Neither the command:

mlab.axes.label_text_property.font_size = 12 (e.g.)

nor the direct menu font size command (advanced settings) works.

I have logged a bug report with Enthought, but it looks like a more general Mayavi bug, see

Pickup answered 7/11, 2013 at 0:9 Comment(0)

As you say this is a bug that has to do with the translation between the mayavi layer and the vtk layer. But for now you could use this attribute:

>> ax=mlab.axes()
>> ax.axes.font_factor
1.5
>> ax.axes.font_factor=2

It only produces a small increase in size, though, as it rejects values above 2.

Shed answered 13/11, 2013 at 21:39 Comment(1)

Thanks, that did the job perfectly. Setting the font_factor to 1.0 gets the font size exactly right for my purpose. – Pickup 14/11, 2013 at 3:23