figure sizes need to be reduced

[jstac]

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Apart from the first one, all the figures on this page are too big: https://python-programming.quantecon.org/about_py.html.

@shlff @Harveyt47 @najuzilu we talked about how to fix this for a long time -- maybe too long, so nothing got done :-)

I suggest we just reduce the size of them using the :scale: argument to the figure directive. Would someone be able to help with this?

[Harveyt47]

Hey @jstac is this also to do with the figure size of figures generated by code across the lectures. Or just PNGs, because I remember something similar in #767. I'm uncertain if this overlaps.

[jstac]

This is separate because it just pertains to PNG files, or whatever kinds of files we're loading into the page via .. figure::

@DrDrij at one point said something about how we should use an image manipulation program to change the size of the figures but I think this is unworkable for us. I suggest we just alter the size via :scale:.

[shlff]

Thanks, @jstac . Hi mates, we also need to update the second figure (pandas vs matlab) of that lecture (https://python-programming.quantecon.org/about_py.html) to 2020 version.

[najuzilu]

I have utilized :scale: in quantecon-example (see book/docs/). I think it would be easy to copy-paste + minor edits into the actual rST files if @jstac thinks the size dimensions in the book example are what we're aiming.

[jstac]

Yes, that sounds great to me @najuzilu, thanks. We just need to use :scale: and that version of the same material has the right scale numbers.

@shlff yes please!

[najuzilu]

It looks like copy-pasting the scale parameter doesn't necessarily scale them to the same size as in the quantecon-example. I just rendered them locally and played around with the scale parameter until the figures looked right. Posting this here in case it's useful to other people.