Hi all,

I could not find a similar issue so forgive me if its a duplicate. We are trying to get a couple of our tests suites to execute on mpl 1.x and 2.0 without having to duplicate the baseline images. The classic style helps a lot but there are still many small issues mainly related to text positioning. Is there a way I can force it to behave the same on mpl 1.x and 2.0?

A simple example demonstrating the problem:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
plt.style.use("classic")
plt.plot([1, 2, 3, 4])
plt.savefig("out.png")

The difference is subtle but enough to cause issues when testing - the text baseline (or center line I guess) is different for both. This was run for mpl 1.5.3 and mpl 2.0.0.