Re: [Matplotlib-users] Automatically make room for my tick labels without GUI ?

On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 7:50 PM, Jae-Joon Lee <lee...@gm...> wrote:
> While I don't know much about how callbacks work in matplotlib,
> looking at the source code of figure.draw() method, it seems that
> call_back functions connected with the "draw_event" are called after a
> figure is drawn. Therefore, you need a second draw. My guess is that
> this second draw is somehow automagically done in gui backends.
> So, a quick and easy solution would be to save the same figure twice.
> First one will have a figure before the adjustment, but the second one
> will have a figure after the adjustment.
This works as you expected :)

> Or, you may create a custom figure class which overrides the draw()
> method to adjust the margins before you draw the actual figure.
> Attached is an example of such custom figure class. I slightly
> modified the original example.
The solution is nice, I'll go for this one !
I don't feel confident enough yet to look inside the library's code, I
definitely should !

Thank you very much Jae-Joon !

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> On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 12:53 PM, Mathieu Leplatre <lep...@gm...> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> I am trying to automatically adjust margins with the SVG backend.
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>> The FAQ example :
>> http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/doc/html/faq/howto_faq.html#how-do-i-automatically-make-room-for-my-tick-labels
>> only works with GUI backends.
>> May it come from get_window_extent() call ?
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>> How could I modify this snipplet so that it works with SVG (or PDF) backends ?
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>> Thank you for your support.
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