On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 1:14 PM, jeffsp <jef...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I have been wondering the same thing. Matlab is able to prevent labels
> from
> overlapping each other. Why can't matplotlib?
>
>
> Chris Rodgers-7 wrote:
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > Whenever I create figures with at least 3x3 subplots, the x-tick
> > labels overlap with each other and they also overlap with the title of
> > the adjacent subplot, rendering the entire figure illegible. I know
> > that I can fine-tune the plot to look exactly the way I want with
> > "wspace" and "hspace" for instance, but I don't understand why this is
> > the default behavior. I wonder if I have a system font issue, such
> > that matplotlib thinks the fonts are smaller than they really are.
> >
> > My questions:
> > 1) Is this the intended behavior of matplotlib, or is there something
> > wrong with my installation?
> > 2) Assuming I don't have an installation issue, is there a very
> > general parameter I can change so that the overlap doesn't occur,
> > rather than manually adjusting every figure?
> >
> >
> > Minimal code to reproduce the problem:
> >
> > import numpy as np
> > import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
> > plt.figure()
> > plt.subplot(331)
> > plt.subplot(334)
> > plt.plot(np.arange(10000))
> > plt.title('Title')
> > plt.show()
> >
> >
> > I'm attaching the output figure, although I'm not sure if the list
> > accepts attachments. The x-tick labels on subplot 334 overlap each
> > other, and the title of subplot 334 overlaps with the x-tick labels in
> > subplot 331.
>
Have you try calling `plt.tight_layout()` right before `plt.show()`?
-Tony
> >
> > System:
> > Ubuntu 10.04 x64
> > All packages are the stable versions from Synaptic, including ipython,
> > python, numpy, matplotlib 0.99.1.1
> > I've also tried the Enthought distribution with matplotlib 1.0.1 and
> > the results are the same
> > I've tried both "Wx" and "Tk" backends and the results are the same
> > I've tried `matplotlib.rcParams['xtick.labelsize'] = 'x-small'`, and
> > this does make the labels smaller, but for sufficiently large numbers
> > the overlap still occurs.
> >
> > Thanks for any help!
> > Chris
>
>
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