I have been wondering the same thing. Matlab is able to prevent labels from
overlapping each other. Why can't matplotlib?
Chris Rodgers-7 wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> Whenever I create figures with at least 3x3 subplots, the x-tick
> labels overlap with each other and they also overlap with the title of
> the adjacent subplot, rendering the entire figure illegible. I know
> that I can fine-tune the plot to look exactly the way I want with
> "wspace" and "hspace" for instance, but I don't understand why this is
> the default behavior. I wonder if I have a system font issue, such
> that matplotlib thinks the fonts are smaller than they really are.
>
> My questions:
> 1) Is this the intended behavior of matplotlib, or is there something
> wrong with my installation?
> 2) Assuming I don't have an installation issue, is there a very
> general parameter I can change so that the overlap doesn't occur,
> rather than manually adjusting every figure?
>
>
> Minimal code to reproduce the problem:
>
> import numpy as np
> import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
> plt.figure()
> plt.subplot(331)
> plt.subplot(334)
> plt.plot(np.arange(10000))
> plt.title('Title')
> plt.show()
>
>
> I'm attaching the output figure, although I'm not sure if the list
> accepts attachments. The x-tick labels on subplot 334 overlap each
> other, and the title of subplot 334 overlaps with the x-tick labels in
> subplot 331.
>
>
> System:
> Ubuntu 10.04 x64
> All packages are the stable versions from Synaptic, including ipython,
> python, numpy, matplotlib 0.99.1.1
> I've also tried the Enthought distribution with matplotlib 1.0.1 and
> the results are the same
> I've tried both "Wx" and "Tk" backends and the results are the same
> I've tried `matplotlib.rcParams['xtick.labelsize'] = 'x-small'`, and
> this does make the labels smaller, but for sufficiently large numbers
> the overlap still occurs.
>
> Thanks for any help!
> Chris
>
>
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