Re: [matplotlib-devel] Bug in print_figure with bbox_inches='tight'? Plots in ipython notebook losing titles and labels...

[Benjamin R. <ben...@ou...>]

On Sunday, January 29, 2012, Fernando Perez <fpe...@gm...> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 10:22 AM, Nathaniel Smith <nj...@po...> wrote:
>>> Not a bug.  There are only so many artist objects we assume for
determining the tight bbox.  Suptitle is not one of them.
>>
>> Why is this the desired behavior?
>
> I was just going to ask the same.   And as Jeff Whitaker points out,
> all x and  y (longitude/latitude) labels also get clipped.
>
> I can understand not considering the position of arbitrarily laid out
> text that a user could have put in a random location.  But clipping
> something that  is provided by a standard api call, such as a figure
> title, does seem much more like a bug than a feature to me, I'm afraid.
>
> Cheers,
>
> f
>

I certainly have no objections. Most likely it was an oversight.

Ben Root