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@anntzer anntzer commented Oct 5, 2021

It explicitly scales the union of child tightbboxes by 1/dpi, i.e.
converts from pixels to inches. Perhaps that's not the most elegant
design, but let's make that behavior clear.

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@@ -1598,6 +1598,9 @@ def get_tightbbox(self, renderer, bbox_extra_artists=None):
"""
Return a (tight) bounding box of the figure in inches.

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The previous sentence says the box will be in inches. Maybe combine these the old and new sentences?

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It explicitly scales the union of child tightbboxes by 1/dpi, i.e.
converts from pixels to inches.  Perhaps that's not the most elegant
design, but let's make that behavior clear.
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Anyone can merge once the docs build.

@tacaswell tacaswell added this to the v3.5.0 milestone Oct 7, 2021
@tacaswell tacaswell merged commit f1aa2e5 into matplotlib:master Oct 7, 2021
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Backport PR #21286 on branch v3.5.x (Clarify FigureBase.tight_bbox as different from all other artists.)
tacaswell added a commit to tacaswell/matplotlib that referenced this pull request Oct 12, 2021
DOC: Clarify FigureBase.tight_bbox as different from all other artists.
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DOC: Clarify FigureBase.tight_bbox as different from all other artists.
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