Set width of plot area, matplotlib

Question

The texts on the right on this pyplot graph are clipped, how can I expand the plot area without changing the x-axis?

Minimal example code (similar to but not identical to example image)

import numpy as np

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import matplotlib as mp

n40=146-1.07*40
n90=146-1.07*90 
ageAxis =np.array([10, 40, 90])
Normal=np.array([n40, n40, n90])
plt.plot(ageAxis,Normal)

plt.text(90.2,50,'long text here that will be clipped')
ax = plt.gca()
ax.set_ylim([0,165])
ax.set_xlim([0,90])
fig= plt.gcf()
# set size fig.set_size_inches(20, 10.5)
plt.show()

fig = matplotlib.pyplot.gcf() fig.set_size_inches(18.5, 10.5) try this and see whether it works or not. — Ishtiaque05
– Ishtiaque05, Commented Feb 6, 2019 at 8:21
@Ishtiaque05 well, that will set the physical size of the plot, but the text should be visible no matter the scaling of the plot. — Stefan
– Stefan, Commented Feb 6, 2019 at 8:25
If you just want to save the figure with all the text visible, you could go for fig.save_fig(bbox_inches='tight'). For interactive plots you can use fig.tight_layout(), but note that once you resize the figure, tight_layout needs to be called again. See here for a solution. — Thomas Kühn
– Thomas Kühn, Commented Feb 6, 2019 at 8:32
Sorry there was a typo, it's fig.savefig(bbox_inches='tight'), i.e. one less underscore. — Thomas Kühn
– Thomas Kühn, Commented Feb 6, 2019 at 8:45

Stefan · Accepted Answer · 2019-02-06 08:51:47Z

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It seems that it can be done with a combination of set_size_inches and subplots_adjust

Not elegant, I think, but it works:

import numpy as np

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import matplotlib as mp

n40=146-1.07*40
n90=146-1.07*90 
ageAxis =np.array([10, 40, 90])
Normal=np.array([n40, n40, n90])
plt.plot(ageAxis,Normal)

plt.text(90.2,50,'long text here that will be clipped')
ax = plt.gca()
ax.set_ylim([0,165])
ax.set_xlim([0,90])
fig= plt.gcf()
fig.set_size_inches(10, 5.5)     # set a suitable size
plt.subplots_adjust(right=0.75)  # adjust plot area
plt.show()

answered Feb 6, 2019 at 8:51

Stefan

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