Matplotlib produces pdf figures whose bounding boxes do not enclose all of the contents of the figure (or, usually, are too big). I thought inkscape could easily solve this problem with: inkscape -f matplotlibOutput.pdf --verb=FitCanvasToDrawing -A prettyfigure.pdf But that leaves the pdf unchanged. Have I made a basic error?

On 16/12/11 01:41, cpblpublic+usenet@...155... wrote: > Matplotlib produces pdf figures whose bounding boxes do not enclose all of > the contents of the figure (or, usually, are too big). > > I thought inkscape could easily solve this problem with: > > inkscape -f matplotlibOutput.pdf --verb=FitCanvasToDrawing -A prettyfigure.pdf > > But that leaves the pdf unchanged. Have I made a basic error? Try this: $ cp matplotlibOutput.pdf prettyfigure.pdf $ inkscape -f prettyfigure.pdf.pdf \ --verb=FitCanvasToDrawing \ --verb=FileSave \ --verb=FileQuit Note: when using verbs on the command line, the GUI cannot be suppressed [1] (limits the usefulness of verbs for scripting or when trying to run Inkscape on a web server as conversion tool): you will need to press some buttons for commands that have options: 1 - Importing (aka opening) a PDF needs a confirmation in the import options dialog 2 - Exporting (saving as PDF) also requires a confirmation in the export options dialog 3 - The warning that you saved in a lossy format makes more sense when working with the GUI right from the beginning. I'm not aware of a setting to turn that warning off.