From 8965c22a2a14fe337c90a224df00ecf703a6489a 2012-07-14 23:55:00
From: Min RK <benjaminrk@gmail.com>
Date: 2012-07-14 23:55:00
Subject: [PATCH] Merge pull request #2074 from tkf/inlinebg

Make BG color of inline plot configurable

via InlineBackend.rc
---

diff --git a/IPython/core/pylabtools.py b/IPython/core/pylabtools.py
index eca72fe..9fd9cd6 100644
--- a/IPython/core/pylabtools.py
+++ b/IPython/core/pylabtools.py
@@ -97,15 +97,10 @@ def print_figure(fig, fmt='png'):
 
     fc = fig.get_facecolor()
     ec = fig.get_edgecolor()
-    fig.set_facecolor('white')
-    fig.set_edgecolor('white')
-    try:
-        bytes_io = BytesIO()
-        fig.canvas.print_figure(bytes_io, format=fmt, bbox_inches='tight')
-        data = bytes_io.getvalue()
-    finally:
-        fig.set_facecolor(fc)
-        fig.set_edgecolor(ec)
+    bytes_io = BytesIO()
+    fig.canvas.print_figure(bytes_io, format=fmt, bbox_inches='tight',
+                            facecolor=fc, edgecolor=ec)
+    data = bytes_io.getvalue()
     return data
 
 
diff --git a/IPython/zmq/pylab/backend_inline.py b/IPython/zmq/pylab/backend_inline.py
index 2401cb9..469d74c 100644
--- a/IPython/zmq/pylab/backend_inline.py
+++ b/IPython/zmq/pylab/backend_inline.py
@@ -40,6 +40,9 @@ class InlineBackend(InlineBackendConfig):
     # so we shrink the figure size to 6x4, and tweak fonts to
     # make that fit.
     rc = Dict({'figure.figsize': (6.0,4.0),
+        # play nicely with white background in the Qt and notebook frontend
+        'figure.facecolor': 'white',
+        'figure.edgecolor': 'white',
         # 12pt labels get cutoff on 6x4 logplots, so use 10pt.
         'font.size': 10,
         # 72 dpi matches SVG/qtconsole