Wow, right there in the FAQ.
That worked great! Thanks for kindly pointing me in the right direction.
Andy
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Jae-Joon Lee wrote:
> http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/faq/howto_faq.html#move-the-edge-of-an-axes-to-make-room-for-tick-labels
>
> something like "fig.subplots_adjust(left=0.2)" would work.
>
> -JJ
>
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Andy Yates wrote:
>> I am trying to generate plots where the y-axis major tick labels are
>> date/times. My tick labels are getting cut off. How can I set a
>> larger area on the left to allow room for my entire date time stamps?
>>
>> fig = Figure()
>> canvas = FigureCanvas(fig)
>> ax = fig.add_subplot(111)
>> ax.plot(x,y)
>> ax.set_title('Gamma Ray')
>> ax.grid(True)
>> ax.set_xlabel('counts/sec')
>> ax.set_ylabel('time')
>> formatter = dates.DateFormatter('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M')
>> ax.yaxis.set_major_formatter(formatter)
>> ax.yaxis.set_major_locator( MinuteLocator( interval=5 ) )
>>
>> fig.set_size_inches( (10, 10) )
>> filename = settings.MEDIA_ROOT + '/images/test1.png'
>> fig.savefig(filename)
>>
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Andy
>>
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