diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/backend_bases.py b/lib/matplotlib/backend_bases.py
index 854eae006e45..f2244c9bb453 100644
--- a/lib/matplotlib/backend_bases.py
+++ b/lib/matplotlib/backend_bases.py
@@ -1501,7 +1501,7 @@ def __init__(self, name, canvas, key, x=0, y=0, guiEvent=None):
         self.key = key
 
 
-def _get_renderer(figure, print_method, *, draw_disabled=False):
+def _get_renderer(figure, print_method=None, *, draw_disabled=False):
     """
     Get the renderer that would be used to save a `~.Figure`, and cache it on
     the figure.
@@ -1520,8 +1520,11 @@ class Done(Exception):
     def _draw(renderer): raise Done(renderer)
 
     with cbook._setattr_cm(figure, draw=_draw):
+        if print_method is None:
+            fmt = figure.canvas.get_default_filetype()
+            print_method = getattr(figure.canvas, f"print_{fmt}")
         try:
-            print_method(io.BytesIO())
+            print_method(io.BytesIO(), dpi=figure.dpi)
         except Done as exc:
             renderer, = figure._cachedRenderer, = exc.args
 
@@ -2089,7 +2092,7 @@ def print_figure(
                     renderer = _get_renderer(
                         self.figure,
                         functools.partial(
-                            print_method, dpi=dpi, orientation=orientation),
+                            print_method, orientation=orientation),
                         draw_disabled=True)
                     self.figure.draw(renderer)
                     bbox_inches = self.figure.get_tightbbox(
diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/tests/test_tightlayout.py b/lib/matplotlib/tests/test_tightlayout.py
index c73992c38c6d..9ad2e0a9a080 100644
--- a/lib/matplotlib/tests/test_tightlayout.py
+++ b/lib/matplotlib/tests/test_tightlayout.py
@@ -310,3 +310,18 @@ def test_suptitle():
     t = ax.set_title("bar")
     fig.canvas.draw()
     assert st.get_window_extent().y0 > t.get_window_extent().y1
+
+
+@pytest.mark.backend("pdf")
+def test_non_agg_renderer(monkeypatch, recwarn):
+    unpatched_init = mpl.backend_bases.RendererBase.__init__
+
+    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
+        # Check that we don't instantiate any other renderer than a pdf
+        # renderer to perform pdf tight layout.
+        assert isinstance(self, mpl.backends.backend_pdf.RendererPdf)
+        unpatched_init(self, *args, **kwargs)
+
+    monkeypatch.setattr(mpl.backend_bases.RendererBase, "__init__", __init__)
+    fig, ax = plt.subplots()
+    fig.tight_layout()
diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/tight_layout.py b/lib/matplotlib/tight_layout.py
index eddd0d678736..43b578fef625 100644
--- a/lib/matplotlib/tight_layout.py
+++ b/lib/matplotlib/tight_layout.py
@@ -166,19 +166,14 @@ def auto_adjust_subplotpars(
 
 def get_renderer(fig):
     if fig._cachedRenderer:
-        renderer = fig._cachedRenderer
+        return fig._cachedRenderer
     else:
         canvas = fig.canvas
-
         if canvas and hasattr(canvas, "get_renderer"):
-            renderer = canvas.get_renderer()
-        else:  # Some noninteractive backends have no renderer until draw time.
-            cbook._warn_external("tight_layout: falling back to Agg renderer")
-            from matplotlib.backends.backend_agg import FigureCanvasAgg
-            canvas = FigureCanvasAgg(fig)
-            renderer = canvas.get_renderer()
-
-    return renderer
+            return canvas.get_renderer()
+        else:
+            from . import backend_bases
+            return backend_bases._get_renderer(fig, draw_disabled=True)
 
 
 def get_subplotspec_list(axes_list, grid_spec=None):