pad_inches=0 and bbox_inches=“tight” makes the plot smaller than declared figsize

Question

I am producing a publication-quality plot to be embedded in latex and I would like to be very precise in terms of sizes and fonts (so that fonts are of the same size in the

Answer 1

The problem you are having is that bbox_inches='tight' just removes all of the extra white space around your figure, it does not actually re-arrange anything in your figure, after it has been rendered.

You might need to tweak the parameters you pass to tight_layout (tutorial) to get your desired effect.

Hopefully this gets you pointed in the right direction.