Ok, axes.apply_aspect() seems to work. The other obvious kluge I had found was to save the figure twice, once before and once after I accessed the axes position.
It seems the more elegant solution might be to use a somewhat-complicated transform, so that that the two endpoints of a Line2d segment can have coordinates in different coordinate systems (e.g. one end is in data coordinates on ax1, and the other end is in data coordinates on ax2). The "axes zoom effect" is similar to what I'm trying to do: http://matplotlib.org/users/annotations_guide.html#zoom-effect-between-axes Thanks! -- View this message in context: http://matplotlib.1069221.n5.nabble.com/axes-get-position-inaccurate-until-after-savefig-tp44954p44990.html Sent from the matplotlib - users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=190641631&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users