In ipython for the qtconsole and notebook, we send inline figures using

fig.canvas.print_figure(bytes_io, format=fmt, bbox_inches='tight')

as seenhere.

However, this produces truncated figure titles. Consider this code:

f,ax=plt.subplots()ax.plot(rand(100))ax.set_title('Axis title')f.suptitle('Figure title');

which produces this in the notebook:

A slightly more complicated example, using basemap, not only truncates the title but also all the x and y labels. We show it here for reference, but as@jswhit (basemap author) pointed out over email, basemap labels are located at arbitrary positions and so it's harder for matplotlib to take them into consideration.

frommpl_toolkits.basemapimportBasemaplon0,lat0,lon1,lat1= (84.38,26.22,88.9,29.8)resolution='i'parallels=np.linspace(lat0,lat1,5)meridians=np.linspace(lon0,lon1,5)f,ax=plt.subplots()m=Basemap(lon0,lat0,lon1,lat1,resolution=resolution,ax=ax)m.drawcountries(color=(1,1,0))# country boundaries in pure yellowm.drawrivers(color=(0,1,1))# rivers in cyanm.bluemarble()# NASA bluemarble imagem.drawmeridians(meridians,labels=[0,0,0,1],fmt='%.2f')m.drawparallels(parallels,labels=[1,0,0,0],fmt='%.2f')f.suptitle('The Himalayas');

While we noticed this in the notebook, the problem will be present for any figure saving operation that supportsbbox_inches='tight'.

As discussed in themailing list thread about this problem, mpl should probably use the position of 'official' artists such figure suptitles in the computation of the bounding box.