I am trying to find the corners of the box produced by adding a matplotlib annotation with background color. This is what I have tried: a = ax.annotate( label, xy=(x, y), backgroundcolor=(0.69, 0.6, 0.65, 0.65), color="#444444", fontsize=14, xytext=(0, 0), textcoords="offset pixels", ) # draw figure to be able to find actual corners ax.get_figure().canvas.draw() points = a.get_window_extent().get_points() # ...or get_tightbbox(), doesn't really matter here corner_ur = points[1] # upper right corner_lr = [points[1][0], points[0][1]] # lower right ... and so on However, the bbox returned by a.get_tightbbox() is the bbox of the text, not the whole padded area with background fill. How can I find the corners of the whole padded box? This image shows in green the result of plotting corner_ur and corner_lr: The points I get are at the corners of the text's bbox, but not of the whole filled area. How do I get those? (Or, alternatively, how do I find the padding used, to calculate them?) Continue reading...
