On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 12:09 PM, Christophe Pettus <x...@thebuild.com>wrote:
> My apologies for two totally noob questions, but I can't quite seem to
> find these in the docs; a pointer would be great...
>
>
No problem. That is what we are here for.
> 1. I would like to position a legend outside of the main plot area. The
> positioning part works great, but the legend is clipped to the pre-existing
> figure dimensions; how can I expand the figure size horizontally to allow
> for the legend? (And is there any way of auto-sizing the figure to
> include all of the stuff within it?)
>
>
This is actually something I deal with regularly. I haven't found a good
solution for the interactive viewing, but when saving a figure to an image
file, you can do something like this (assume that the legend object is
stored in a variable named "leg"):
fig.savefig('foobar.png", bbox_inches='tight', pad_inches=0.25,
bbox_extra_artists=[leg])
> 2. In the horizontal bar chart I previously mentioned, the labels on the
> ticks on the Y-axis are clipped on the left side, as they are too long to
> fit into the pre-existing space. What's the best way of allowing more
> space for the tick labels, either by contracting the chart itself or
> expanding the figure?
>
>
In mpl v1.1.0, we introduced a function called "tight_layout" which should
help with such things. Admittedly, it would be nice if tight_layout did
something similar to bbox_inches='tight' and accept a list of additional
artist objects to consider, but it does not do that right now.
Cheers!
Ben Root
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