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>>>>> "matthew" == matthew arnison <ma...@ca...> writes:
 matthew> Hi, Currently matplotlib outputs postscript graphs which
 matthew> have no bounding box set. This means that by default they
 matthew> fill the whole page. If you want to include several plots
 matthew> in the same page in a document (because you generated
 matthew> them separately, or because the subplot output is a bit
 matthew> messy) then you have to manually crop each postscript
 matthew> graph. (Atleast that is my experience with LaTeX via lyx,
 matthew> Word is presumably similar.)
Hi Matthew, thanks for keeping the flame under my butt re EPS. This
is something that has come up a number of times and isn't hard to
implement. I just haven't taken the time to do it. Work has kept me
pretty busy the last two weeks.
There was a discussion on this mailing list some time ago where
several workarounds were discussed - sourceforge archives are
currently down or I'd post a link. I use the following: PS can be
included directly in LaTeX and sized
 \usepackage[dvips]{graphics}
 \newcommand{\dofig}[2]
 {\center{\scalebox{#1}{\includegraphics*{#2}}}} 
 \begin{figure}[t]
 \dofig{0.5}{somefile.ps}
 \caption{\footnotesize Insert your figure caption here} 
 \label{fig:figref}
 \end{figure}
0.5 is a scaling arg. Don't know how to do it in lyx though.
Others use ps2eps or ps2epsi.
But I can get the eps thing done with little effort -- I already know
the bounding box, it's just a matter of detecting the extension and
adding one line of code to the PS output. 
Stay tuned!
John Hunter