Is it possible to trim the white space around a plot on the creation?
I want to keep all the titles and labels as they are, so setting margins to 0 is not what I am after.
Here is the initial plot (left) and what I want to achieve (right).
It is possible with ImageMagick by doing this: convert input.png -trim output.png.
It would be very nice to have such an option when using c->Print() or c->SaveAs(), and so on.
I often find the white spaces to be the remnants of the manually set margins picked arbitrarily to not strip any titles/labels.
When used in latex, such white spaces create extremely large spaces around the images.
And tripping is a must.
Using purely ROOT it is doable by adjusting margins perfectly in advance, which is not easy for a regular user.
AFAIK the only this is the only way to achieve what you are looking for, i.e. via SetMargins or other similar functions. Yes, it must be done on a per-canvas basis manually in this case.
It would be very nice to have such an option when using c->Print() or c->SaveAs() , and so on.
I am not aware of the existence of such an option, but I very much agree with you that it would be very nice to have! Maybe let’s hear @couet 's opinion on this.
Such option does not exist in ROOT. There is TASIMage::Crop but that not the same functionality. You can always make a special ROOT script spawning the convert command.
