On Sat, Apr 06, 2013 at 12:16:06AM -0700, Roland Haas wrote:
Matplotlibs savefig has an option to get tight bounding boxes
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3130072/matplotlib-savefig-image-trim
though using only removes the whitespace on the right hand side.
Did you try
fig.savefig("bla.pdf", bbox_inches='tight') ?
Frank