Plt.show shows full graph but savefig is cropping the image
PythonMatplotlibPython Problem Overview
My code is succesfully saving images to file, but it is cropping important details from the right hand side. Answers exist for fixing this problem when it arises for plt.show
, but it is the savefig
command that is incorrectly producing the graph in this example. How can this be fixed?
The relevant sample of my code:
import glob
import os
for file in glob.glob("*.oax"):
try:
spc_file = open(file, 'r').read()
newName = file[6:8] + '-' + file[4:6] + '-' + file[0:4] + ' ' + file[8:12] + ' UTC (Observed) - No Sea Breeze Day'
plt.title(newName, fontsize=12, loc='left')
plt.savefig('X:/' + newName + '.png')
plt.show()
except Exception:
pass
And the images (top is plt.show
and bottom is file produced from savefig
:
Python Solutions
Solution 1 - Python
You may try
plt.savefig('X:/' + newName + '.png', bbox_inches='tight')
Or you may define figure size like
fig = plt.figure(figsize=(9, 11))
...
plt.savefig(filename, bbox_inches = 'tight')
Solution 2 - Python
As described in the documentation you may also try:
plt.tight_layout()
Solution 3 - Python
Another very easy solution is saving a plot to a .pdf format. This have worked for me many times when bbox_inches = 'tight'
and plt.tight_layout()
didn't help.
Syntax is just:
plt.savefig('X:/' + newName + '.pdf')