Hallo Nils,
I always create my plots in the following way:
figprops = dict(figsize=(6.5, 7.5), dpi=1200)
fig = plt.figure(**figprops)
clf()
adjustprops = dict(left=0.08, bottom=0.08, right=0.965, top=0.94, wspace=0.13, hspace=0.37)
fig.subplots_adjust(**adjustprops)
…
savefig(‘all.pdf’,papertype=‘a4’, orientation=‘portrait’)
Good to know someone close is also using it 
Viele Gruesse aus Tuebingen 
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Oz Nahum
Graduate Student
Zentrum für Angewandte Geologie
Universität Tübingen
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