Hi all, Forgive me as this is the first time I've posted here. I've asked a question on StackOverFlow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10101700/moving-matplotlib-legend-outside-of-the-axis-makes-it-cutoff-by-the-figure-box#comment12952803_10101700 The question relates to adjusting the size of the figure box to accommodate a large legend when the legend is placed below instead of on top of the axes. I thought I'd post here to see if there are any other answers to avoiding having the figure box cut off the bottom of the legend. Thanks Jonathan -- There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew. E: jdt...@gm...
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 2:05 AM, Jonathan Bruck <jdt...@gm...> wrote: > Hi all, > > Forgive me as this is the first time I've posted here. I've asked a > question on StackOverFlow: > > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10101700/moving-matplotlib-legend-outside-of-the-axis-makes-it-cutoff-by-the-figure-box#comment12952803_10101700 > > The question relates to adjusting the size of the figure box to > accommodate a large legend when the legend is placed below instead of on > top of the axes. > > I thought I'd post here to see if there are any other answers to avoiding > having the figure box cut off the bottom of the legend. > > Thanks > > Jonathan > -- > There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew. > > E: jdt...@gm... > > If you only care about saving the figure, the savefig() method can take bbox='tight' and bbox_extra_artists=[legnd_obj] arguments (assuming you save the legend to such a variable. As for on-screen displays, I have yet to find a solution. Ben Root
Thanks for a response, but unfortunately it doesn't seem to work. I have some sample code on pastebin http://pastebin.com/W6JmbCsz in case the following does not email out well # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- """ Created on Thu Apr 12 11:16:03 2012 Using the current stable version of pythonxy on Windows 7 32bit Author: Jonathan Notice how the figure box is not placed correctly, effectively missing the legend entirely """ import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import numpy as np x = np.arange(-2*np.pi, 2*np.pi, 0.1) fig = plt.figure(1, figsize=(8,6)) ax = fig.add_subplot(111) ax.plot(x, np.sin(x), label='Sine') ax.plot(x, np.cos(x), label='Cosine') ax.plot(x, np.arctan(x), label='Inverse tan') handles, labels = ax.get_legend_handles_labels() lgd = ax.legend(handles, labels, loc=9, bbox_to_anchor=(0.5,-0.1)) ax.grid('on') #fig.tight_layout() fig.savefig('samplefigure', bbox_extra_artists=(lgd,), bbox='tight') On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 11:51 PM, Benjamin Root <ben...@ou...> wrote: > > > On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 2:05 AM, Jonathan Bruck <jdt...@gm...>wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> Forgive me as this is the first time I've posted here. I've asked a >> question on StackOverFlow: >> >> >> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10101700/moving-matplotlib-legend-outside-of-the-axis-makes-it-cutoff-by-the-figure-box#comment12952803_10101700 >> >> The question relates to adjusting the size of the figure box to >> accommodate a large legend when the legend is placed below instead of on >> top of the axes. >> >> I thought I'd post here to see if there are any other answers to avoiding >> having the figure box cut off the bottom of the legend. >> >> Thanks >> >> Jonathan >> -- >> There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew. >> >> E: jdt...@gm... >> >> > If you only care about saving the figure, the savefig() method can take > bbox='tight' and bbox_extra_artists=[legnd_obj] arguments (assuming you > save the legend to such a variable. As for on-screen displays, I have yet > to find a solution. > > Ben Root > > -- There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew. Jonathan Bruck E: jdt...@gm... Mob: 0421188951 Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical, Biomedical), Bachelor of Medical Science --
On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 2:21 AM, Jonathan Bruck <jdt...@gm...> wrote: > Thanks for a response, but unfortunately it doesn't seem to work. I have > some sample code on pastebin http://pastebin.com/W6JmbCsz in case the > following does not email out well > > # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- > """ > Created on Thu Apr 12 11:16:03 2012 > > Using the current stable version of pythonxy on Windows 7 32bit > Author: Jonathan > > > Notice how the figure box is not placed correctly, effectively missing the > legend entirely > """ > > import matplotlib.pyplot as plt > import numpy as np > > x = np.arange(-2*np.pi, 2*np.pi, 0.1) > fig = plt.figure(1, figsize=(8,6)) > ax = fig.add_subplot(111) > ax.plot(x, np.sin(x), label='Sine') > ax.plot(x, np.cos(x), label='Cosine') > ax.plot(x, np.arctan(x), label='Inverse tan') > handles, labels = ax.get_legend_handles_labels() > lgd = ax.legend(handles, labels, loc=9, bbox_to_anchor=(0.5,-0.1)) > ax.grid('on') > #fig.tight_layout() > fig.savefig('samplefigure', bbox_extra_artists=(lgd,), bbox='tight') > > > I apologize, it was bbox_inches='tight', not bbox='tight'. Because savefig has to be able to take arbitrary kwargs that get passed down to the backends, it does not check for incorrect kwargs. Ben Root
hello all,
i've tried it on my laptop, but got this error at the last line:
>>> fig.savefig('samplefigure', bbox_extra_artists=(lgd,),
bbox_inches='tight')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<console>", line 1, in <module>
File
"/Users/me/python/virtualenv/bmfvca6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/matplotlib/figure.py",
line 1084, in savefig
self.canvas.print_figure(*args, **kwargs)
File
"/Users/me/python/virtualenv/bmfvca6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/matplotlib/backend_bases.py",
line 1894, in print_figure
in kwargs.pop("bbox_extra_artists", [])]
TypeError: get_window_extent() takes exactly 1 argument (2 given)
does it mean that i need to upgrade to python 2.7 ?
thanks in advance for help,
gerard
On Thursday, May 31, 2012, solarg wrote:
> hello all,
>
> i've tried it on my laptop, but got this error at the last line:
>
> >>> fig.savefig('samplefigure', bbox_extra_artists=(lgd,),
> bbox_inches='tight')
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "<console>", line 1, in <module>
> File
>
> "/Users/me/python/virtualenv/bmfvca6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/matplotlib/figure.py",
> line 1084, in savefig
> self.canvas.print_figure(*args, **kwargs)
> File
>
> "/Users/me/python/virtualenv/bmfvca6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/matplotlib/backend_bases.py",
> line 1894, in print_figure
> in kwargs.pop("bbox_extra_artists", [])]
> TypeError: get_window_extent() takes exactly 1 argument (2 given)
>
> does it mean that i need to upgrade to python 2.7 ?
>
> thanks in advance for help,
>
> gerard
>
>
Unlikely. Which version of matplotlib? It might be a bug in an older
version of mpl.
Ben Root
On 06/01/12 03:59 PM, Benjamin Root wrote: > > > > Unlikely. Which version of matplotlib? It might be a bug in an older > version of mpl. > > Ben Root i'm using 1.0.1 onto macosx. thanks for your help, gerard
On 06/04/12 07:25 AM, solarg wrote: > On 06/01/12 03:59 PM, Benjamin Root wrote: >> >> >> >> Unlikely. Which version of matplotlib? It might be a bug in an older >> version of mpl. >> >> Ben Root > > i'm using 1.0.1 onto macosx. > > thanks for your help, > > gerard i've just tried with 1.1.0 on solaris 11 and it works. So the problem is related with 1.0.1 thanks for help, gerard