Re: [Matplotlib-users] faq: reducing figure.figsize cuts off labels and tick marks

[Goyo <goy...@gm...>]

2011/2/22 Daniel Mader <dan...@go...>:
> Hi,
>
> there has been a similar question recently but I couldn't figure out
> if or how this is solved:
>
> I'd like to reduce the figure size so that I can add it to a LaTeX
> document without scaling (PDF output with LaTeX font rendering). For
> that, I need to adapt the font sizes, too.
>
> Unfortunately, the canvas is not properly scaled so that the axis
> labels and the possibly the tick marks are cut off.
>
> Is this a bug, feature, design flaw? How can I properly work around
> it, i.e. reduce the graph automatically for a given figsize/font size
> combination so that everything fits on the figure?

You'll have to understand how dimensions are calculated and then use
stuff like Figure.subplots_adjust.

http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/api/figure_api.html#matplotlib.figure.Figure.subplots_adjust
http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/api/figure_api.html#matplotlib.figure.SubplotParams
http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/faq/howto_faq.html#automatically-make-room-for-tick-labels

As a fast and dirty trick you can pass big numbers to subplots_adjust
and then use bbox_inches='tight' in savefig.

Goyo