I have a similar problem because I use bigfonts. If you are
> going to make a lot of these plots, you can change the
> default for left, bottom, height, and width in your
> matplotlibrc file. Look for the lines:
> figure.subplot.left : 0.15 #0.125 # the left side of the
> subplots of the figure figure.subplot.right : 0.925 # the
> right side of the subplots of the figure
> figure.subplot.bottom : 0.125 # the bottom of the subplots
> of the figure figure.subplot.top : 0.925 # the top of the
> subplots of the figure
And if you just need it for this figure
fig = figure()
fig.subplots_adjust(bottom=0.15)
JDH