Question

I’m creating a bar chart with matplotlib-0.91 (for the first time) but the y axis labels are being cut off. If I increase the width of the figure enough they eventually show up completely but then the output is not the correct size.

Any way to deal with this?

Answer 1

I think I ran into a similar problem.

See if this helps adjusting the label’s font size:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import matplotlib.font_manager as fm  fontsize2use = 10  fig = plt.figure(figsize=(10,5)) plt.xticks(fontsize=fontsize2use)   plt.yticks(fontsize=fontsize2use)     fontprop = fm.FontProperties(size=fontsize2use) ax = fig.add_subplot(111) ax.set_xlabel('XaxisLabel') ax.set_ylabel('YaxisLabel') . <main plotting code> . ax.legend(loc=0, prop=fontprop)      

For the bar width, if your using pyplot.bar it looks like you can play with the width attribute.