I think I have said this a few times, but if you're using axes_grid toolkit, it is likely that most of the ticks, ticklabels and axis-related command of the original matplotlib may NOT work. And that is why I recommend you to use the spines instead.
Anyhow, adjusting the pad between axis and the axis label in the axes_grid toolkit way is ax.axis["xzero"].LABELPAD=10 Things like "labelpad" parameters in xlabel (or ylabel) command are currently ignored. I don't think set_position command will work also. I f you need to place your labels at some specific point, simply use "text" or "annotate" command instead. -JJ On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 2:02 PM, per freem <perfr...@gmail.com> wrote: > thanks for the suggestion, though this does not work for me in the > following example: > > import matplotlib > matplotlib.use('PDF') > import matplotlib.pyplot as plt > from matplotlib import rc > rc('font',**{'family':'sans-serif','sans-serif':['Helvetica']}) > plt.rcParams['ps.useafm'] = True > rc('font',**{'family':'sans-serif','sans-serif':['Helvetica']}) > plt.rcParams['pdf.fonttype'] = 42 > plt.rcParams['font.size'] = 10 > > from mpl_toolkits.axes_grid.axislines import SubplotZero > > def setup_axes(fig, labelpad=1, invisible=["bottom", "top", "right"]): > plt.rcParams['ytick.major.pad'] = 2 > plt.rcParams['ytick.minor.pad'] = 2 > # Y ticks work, but X tick do not... > plt.rcParams['xtick.major.pad'] = 0.01 > plt.rcParams['xtick.minor.pad'] = 0.01 > ax = SubplotZero(fig, 1, 1, 1) > fig.add_subplot(ax) > # make xzero axis (horizontal axis line through y=0) visible. > ax.axis["xzero"].set_visible(True) > # make other axis (bottom, top, right) invisible. > for n in invisible: > ax.axis[n].set_visible(False) > return ax > > fig = plt.figure(figsize=(5, 5), dpi=300) > setup_axes(fig, labelpad=2) > x = range(1, 11) > y = [5000, 900, 600, 500, 200, 110, 50, 20, 10, 5] > plt.plot(x, y, linewidth=1.5, c='k') > plt.ylabel('hello', labelpad=10) > xlab = plt.xlabel('hello x axis') > xlab.set_position((0.2, 0.1)) > plt.savefig('test_logscale.pdf') > > the xaxis doesn't seem to be moved. any idea what might be wrong here? > thanks. > > On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 1:43 PM, Gökhan Sever <gokhanse...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 12:36 PM, per freem <perfr...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> hi all, >>> >>> how can the space between the label (e.g. thing created by >>> plt.xlabel('mylabel')) and the axes be adjusted? i am not talking >>> about the space between the ticklabels of the axes and the axes >>> themselves (which is set by 'xtick.major.pad' or 'ytick.major.pad') >>> but between the overall axes label and the axes. >>> >>> how can this be done? thanks. >>> >> >> Using the set_position method, e.g. : >> >> xlab = plt.xlabel("my x-axes label") >> xlab.set_position((0.2, 0.1)) >> >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 >>> 30-Day >>> trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus >>> on >>> what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with >>> Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Matplotlib-users mailing list >>> Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users >> >> >> >> -- >> Gökhan >> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day > trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on > what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with > Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july > _______________________________________________ > Matplotlib-users mailing list > Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users