[Matplotlib-users] bounding box functionality with text() function

[Michael H. <mh...@us...>]

I'm having a problem with the bbox keyword to the text() function.  The 
code below, for me, results in one postscript file that looks fine, but 
the PNG file has letters outside of the bounding box for most of the 
words I plot.

I'm using matplotlib '0.98pre' on Mac OS X.

import matplotlib
matplotlib.use('agg')
from pylab import *

x = array([6,7,8,9,10])
y = array([6,7,8,9,10])
fig = figure()
plot(x,y,'rx')
hold('on')
fontdict2 = {'fontweight':'light',
             'color': 'k',
             'fontsize':9}
words = ['Hi','Goodbye','What''s this','Aloha','So long, farewell']
for i in range(0,len(x)):
    tx = x[i]
    ty = y[i]
    word = words[i]
    text(tx,ty,word,fontdict2,bbox={'facecolor':'w'})

savefig('textplot.eps')
savefig('textplot.png')
close(fig)

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