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user3821012
user3821012

Reputation: 1331

Matplotlib with annotation cut off from the saved figure

I'm using matplotlib to draw something figure while using annotations. The problem I experienced is that the annotation (which is outside the plotting area) is cut off from the saved picture, as shown in the following figure.

figure with annotations cut off

This following figure is the one I want:

The desired picture

Anybody knows how to solve this problem? I noticed people suggest using plt.tight_plot() or fig.autolayout in rcParams, but that doesn't seem to work. Below is the code for producing the figure.

fig, ax = plt.subplots()
ax.set_xlim([-0.02,1.1])
ax.set_ylim([-0.02,1.1])

ax.plot([0,0,0,0.5,0.5,0.5,1,1,1], [0,0.5,1,0,0.5,1,0,0.5,1], 'go')

ax.annotate("Digit 2",
            xy=(0.5, -0.1), xycoords='data',
            xytext=(0.5, -0.3), textcoords='data',
            arrowprops=dict(arrowstyle="->",
                            connectionstyle="arc3"),
             annotation_clip=False,
             fontsize = 12,
             ha='center',
            )

ax.annotate("Level 2",
            xy=(-0.1, 1), xycoords='data',
            xytext=(-0.35, 1), textcoords='data',
            arrowprops=dict(arrowstyle="->",
                            connectionstyle="arc3"),
                    annotation_clip=False,
                    fontsize = 12,
                    va='center',
            )

plt.savefig('sample.png', dpi = 300)

Upvotes: 30

Views: 23055

Answers (1)

ODiogoSilva
ODiogoSilva

Reputation: 2414

Save figure with the bbox_inches argument

plt.savefig('sample.png', bbox_inches="tight")

Upvotes: 57

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