Save/export axes/plot area to file, not figure

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There is no shortage of SO questions about saving a matplotlib figure to a file. This is easy using fig.savefig(filename).

But what if I want to save only the plot area itself, not the x- and y-axes, the outline of the plot or the title etc.

For example, I would like to export only the area shown in red below to either a .pdf or a .png:

could you not just set fig.subplots_adjust(left=0,right=1,bottom=0,top=1) before you savefig? then you will lose all the titles, labels, etc. — tmdavison
– tmdavison, Commented Dec 1, 2015 at 18:31

Pear666 · Accepted Answer · 2015-12-01 22:02:52Z

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you can do it by simply adding the following lines in your code

plt.axis('off')
plt.savefig("test.png",bbox_inches='tight')

plt.axis('off') hides your axis and bbox_inches='tight' crops the picture of the white spaces where the axis were.

answered Dec 1, 2015 at 22:02

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LondonRob Over a year ago

This is pretty good. Is there a way to do plt.axis('off)` without using the pyplot object? I tend to work with ax and fig objects. (I do fig.tight_layout() for the bbox_inches thing.

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