Re: [Matplotlib-users] savefig bbox_inches='tight' does not consider suptitle

[Yuri D'E. <wa...@us...>]

On Tue, 1 Mar 2011 12:44:20 +0900
Jae-Joon Lee <lee...@gm...> wrote:

> > Is this a bug?
> 
> Unfortunately, bbox_inches option is never meant to be complete in
> figuring out the exact  size of the figure area.

Why not? What's the purpose of bbox_inches='tight' otherwise?

> However, you  can use "bbox_extra_artists" keyword argument to specify
> additional artists that should be considered when dertermining the
> plot size.
> 
> mytitle = fig.suptitle("Horray!", fontsize=20)
> 
> ...
> 
> fig.savefig("out.png", bbox_inches='tight', bbox_extra_artists=[mytitle])

That doesn't work for me either.