> On 9. juni. 2009, at 17.18, Jouni K. Seppänen wrote: > >> Chaitanya Krishna <icym...@gmail.com> writes: >> >>> On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 12:05 PM, Paul Anton Letnes >>> <paul.anton.let...@gmail.com >>> > wrote: >>>> >>>> When I run the script below, the xlabel and ylabel do not show >>>> up. If I >>>> increase the figure size, it all works fine. >>> >>> I am not sure if it is a bug. But, it is usual that such a thing >>> happens when you are making small figures (like in your case). >> >> Arguably it is a bug, since it is reasonable to expect that when >> you set >> an xlabel or ylabel (or, say, large yticklabels), it shows up in the >> figure. There are at least two problems to solve here: what should >> the >> user interface be like, and how can it best be implemented? >> >> The user interface question seems difficult to me. If you set the >> figure >> size to something small (as in this case) and then add labels, should >> matplotlib reduce the area available for the plot? Or should it >> reduce >> the font size of the labels and the tick labels, and perhaps the >> amount >> of white space between the axes and the labels? Or some combination >> of >> these? >> >> The implementation question could also be somewhat hairy, since the >> bounding box of text objects depends on the backend. If agg and pdf >> disagree on the size of a label, is it OK to get different-looking >> results in png and pdf? >> >> -- >> Jouni K. Seppänen >> http://www.iki.fi/jks >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial >> Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited >> royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing >> server and web deployment. >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects >> _______________________________________________ >> Matplotlib-users mailing list >> Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users > > This _must_ be a bug. Consider the following: > ############## > import matplotlib > matplotlib.rcParams['figure.figsize'] = [8.85, 3.20] > matplotlib.use('pdf') > from pylab import * > > xs = linspace(0, 2 * pi) > ys = sin(xs) > plot(xs, ys) > xlabel(r'$T_{est}$') > ylabel('y axis') > > savefig('test') > ############## > Here, the vertical size is clearly large enough for a label, as it > is a full inch larger than in the previous example. However, the > xlabel is truncated. This _must_ be a bug. When I make a plot, I > would expect that all parts of the plot appear on the plot. > > As an example, in Gnuplot, the text just appears in the "right > place", but is too large (overlaps the plot, etc). Hence, you see > for yourself that the font size is the problem. > > Anyway, it can't be the font size here, as the xlabel was completely > outside the "bounding box" (I'm not sure of the terminology). To me, > it just looks like a problem with the scaling - the plot looks > perfectly OK in Illustrator, disregarding that it doesn't fit inside > the "viewing window". > > I'm not an expert, and I certainly don't know how to fix this. But I > do know that other software manages this nicely. Don't get me wrong, > I use matplotlib because I like it - but it should be possible to > fix this problem. > > > Best regards, > Paul.
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