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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Increased padding using tight_layout with pad=0","articleBody":"I have found that in the rc2 version of matplotlib that there is extra padding when using `plt.tight_layout(pad=0)` for axis labels. It also is worse for when using `usetex=True` for the axis label. \r\n\r\n```python\r\nimport matplotlib\r\nimport matplotlib.pyplot as plt\r\nmatplotlib.rcParams['xtick.direction'] = 'in'\r\nmatplotlib.rcParams['ytick.direction'] = 'in'\r\nmatplotlib.rcParams['xtick.top'] = True\r\nmatplotlib.rcParams['ytick.right'] = True\r\nfig = plt.figure(figsize=(3,4))\r\nplt.xticks([0.2,0.8])\r\nplt.yticks([0.2,0.8])\r\nplt.xlabel('x label')\r\nplt.ylabel('y label', usetex=True)\r\nplt.tight_layout(pad=0)\r\n\r\nfig.savefig('test.png', dpi=1000)\r\n```\r\n\r\nI ran the above code twice, once in 1.5.1 and again in 2.0.0rc2 (for 1.5.1 you must comment out `matplotlib.rcParams['xtick.top'] = True` and `matplotlib.rcParams['ytick.top'] = True`). The screenshot below shows the saved png for 1.5.1 on the left and 2.0.0rc2 on the right:\r\n\r\n![alt text](http://i.imgur.com/uWLPDtR.png)\r\n\r\nIn 1.5.1 you can see that the text for both the \"y label\" and \"x label\" are right next to the edge of the figure. However in 2.0.0rc2 the x and y labels are significantly spaced from the edge of the figure and the spacing is even worse for the y label where `usetex=True`.\r\n\r\nI am using Python 2.7 installed on Windows from anaconda.","author":{"url":"https://github.com/pfigliozzi","@type":"Person","name":"pfigliozzi"},"datePublished":"2017-01-12T17:54:05.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":29},"url":"https://github.com/7806/matplotlib/issues/7806"}