Hi!
This may be a pdf issue or an SVG issue and have nothing to do with matplotlib.
If so, sorry...
Whenever I produce a figure with matplotlib and 'crop it' using the axis
command
the svg comes out fine. However, when I save this svg to pdf using inkscape's
'cairo' backend the part of the
Sounds like a Inkscape/Cairo issue to me, if the PDF it converts doesn't
match the SVG. That said, SVG is tricky to get right, and we may be
able to produce things in a different way that Inkscape will handle
correctly. I'll look into this and file a bug with Inkscape and/or
Cairo if it
