René's URL Explorer Experiment

{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Vertices clipped for certain markers when plotting more than two points and saving as pdf","articleBody":"\u003c!--To help us understand and resolve your issue, please fill out the form to the best of your ability.--\u003e\r\n\u003c!--You can feel free to delete the sections that do not apply.--\u003e\r\n\r\n### Bug report\r\n\r\n**Bug summary**\r\nThe vertices on certain markers ('^', 'D', 'v') are clipped when using `plot()` to plot data with more than two points and saving the plot as a PDF.\r\n\r\n**Code for reproduction**\r\n\r\n\u003c!--A minimum code snippet required to reproduce the bug, also minimizing the number of dependencies required--\u003e\r\n\r\n```python\r\nimport matplotlib.pyplot as plt\r\nsize = 256, 16\r\nfig,ax = plt.subplots()\r\nnum = 3\r\n\r\nfig,ax = plt.subplots()\r\nax.plot([i+1 for i in range(num)],[1 for i in range(num)], '^', markersize=3, markeredgewidth=0.7, color='green', markeredgecolor='black')\r\nax.set_xlim(0, num +1)\r\nax.set_xticks(())\r\nax.set_yticks(())\r\nfig.savefig('test.pdf') # This doesn't work properly.\r\nfig.savefig('test.svg')\r\n```\r\n\r\n**Actual outcome**\r\n\r\n\u003c!--The output produced by the above code, which may be a screenshot, console output, etc.--\u003e\r\n\r\n![pdfmarker](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/8723338/33104959-e7cacfd6-cef8-11e7-880a-0e8aa8643454.png)\r\n![svgmarker](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/8723338/33104963-ea6f906e-cef8-11e7-8742-ce5b2421c337.png)\r\n\r\nThe top image is of the marker from the .pdf file. The bottom image is of the marker from the .svg file.\r\n\r\n\r\n**Expected outcome**\r\n\r\n\u003c!--A description of the expected outcome from the code snippet--\u003e\r\n\u003c!--If this used to work in an earlier version of Matplotlib, please note the version it used to work on--\u003e\r\nThe marker in the .pdf file should look like the marker in the .svg file.\r\n\r\n**Matplotlib version**\r\n\u003c!--Please specify your platform and versions of the relevant libraries you are using:--\u003e\r\n  * Operating system: Ubuntu 17.04\r\n  * Matplotlib version: 2.1.0\r\n  * Matplotlib backend (`print(matplotlib.get_backend())`): TkAgg\r\n  * Python version: Python 3.5.3\r\n  * Jupyter version (if applicable):\r\n  * Other libraries: \r\n\r\nI installed matplotlib via pip.\r\n\u003c!--Please tell us how you installed matplotlib and python e.g., from source, pip, conda--\u003e\r\n\u003c!--If you installed from conda, please specify which channel you used if not the default--\u003e\r\n\r\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/nscottnichols","@type":"Person","name":"nscottnichols"},"datePublished":"2017-11-22T01:37:05.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":2},"url":"https://github.com/9829/matplotlib/issues/9829"}