thanks for the suggestion, though this does not work for me in the
following example:

import matplotlib
matplotlib.use('PDF')
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from matplotlib import rc
rc('font',**{'family':'sans-serif','sans-serif':['Helvetica']})
plt.rcParams['ps.useafm'] = True
rc('font',**{'family':'sans-serif','sans-serif':['Helvetica']})
plt.rcParams['pdf.fonttype'] = 42
plt.rcParams['font.size'] = 10

from mpl_toolkits.axes_grid.axislines import SubplotZero

def setup_axes(fig, labelpad=1, invisible=["bottom", "top", "right"]):
    plt.rcParams['ytick.major.pad'] = 2
    plt.rcParams['ytick.minor.pad'] = 2
    # Y ticks work, but X tick do not...
    plt.rcParams['xtick.major.pad'] = 0.01
    plt.rcParams['xtick.minor.pad'] = 0.01
    ax = SubplotZero(fig, 1, 1, 1)
    fig.add_subplot(ax)
    # make xzero axis (horizontal axis line through y=0) visible.
    ax.axis["xzero"].set_visible(True)
    # make other axis (bottom, top, right) invisible.
    for n in invisible:
        ax.axis[n].set_visible(False)
    return ax

fig = plt.figure(figsize=(5, 5), dpi=300)
setup_axes(fig, labelpad=2)
x = range(1, 11)
y = [5000, 900, 600, 500, 200, 110, 50, 20, 10, 5]
plt.plot(x, y, linewidth=1.5, c='k')
plt.ylabel('hello', labelpad=10)
xlab = plt.xlabel('hello x axis')
xlab.set_position((0.2, 0.1))
plt.savefig('test_logscale.pdf')

the xaxis doesn't seem to be moved. any idea what might be wrong here?  thanks.

On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 1:43 PM, Gökhan Sever <gokhanse...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 12:36 PM, per freem <perfr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> hi all,
>>
>> how can the space between the label (e.g. thing created by
>> plt.xlabel('mylabel')) and the axes be adjusted? i am not talking
>> about the space between the ticklabels of the axes and the axes
>> themselves (which is set by 'xtick.major.pad' or 'ytick.major.pad')
>> but between the overall axes label and the axes.
>>
>> how can this be done?  thanks.
>>
>
> Using the set_position method, e.g. :
>
> xlab = plt.xlabel("my x-axes label")
> xlab.set_position((0.2, 0.1))
>
>>
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