heatmap: "image size too large" error

[thermokarst]

Bug Description

$ qiime feature-table heatmap --i-table table.qza --o-visualization heatmap
Plugin error from feature-table: Image size of 259406x4491 pixels is too large. It must be less than 2^16 in each direction.

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[MADscientist314]

I am also having a similar error
$ qiime feature-table heatmap --i-table table.qza --m-metadata-file sample-metadata.tsv --m-metadata-column Subject --p-normalize --p-title HMME --p-metric braycurtis --p-method average --p-cluster both --p-color-scheme rainbow --o-visualization heatmaos.qzv --output-dir ./taxonomy2 --verbose
Plugin error from feature-table:

Image size of 157629x1125 pixels is too large. It must be less than 2^16 in each direction.

[thermokarst]

Thanks @MADscientist314! We haven't gotten around to fixing this just yet, but would welcome a PR if you're interested! Otherwise, please find us on the QIIME 2 Forum if you need any additional help. Thanks!