Re: [Matplotlib-users] Problem with text bounding box

[Jakob G. <ga...@il...>]

On 09/03/2012 08:57 PM, Eric Firing wrote:
> It looks like you can either use the _get_layout() method (which
> requires that you specify the renderer), or, if you know the text object
> will be among the last 50 for which _get_layout() has been called, you
> can use txt1.cached[txt1.get_prop_typ()].
>
>>
>> Is there a different way to achieve a fitted text object?
>
> Not that I know of; but someone else may have a suggestion.
>
> Eric

Many thanks for the quick and valuable return. I now use the _get_layout() method and
it works like a charm :)

Just replaced:
sf1 = 6*72./txt1.cached.items()[0][1][1][0][1][0]
with:
sf1 = 6*72./txt1._get_layout('GTKAgg')[1][0][1][0]

br
Jakob