# How to fix the rotated label position in this plot?
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-fix-the-rotated-label-position-in-this-plot/68025
**Category:** Visualization
**Tags:** plotting, plots, gr, pgfplotsx
**Created:** [September 11, 2021, 2:51pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-fix-the-rotated-label-position-in-this-plot/68025 "2021-09-11T14:51:06Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@LaurentPlagne](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/LaurentPlagne)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2021, 2:51pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-fix-the-rotated-label-position-in-this-plot/68025/1 "2021-09-11T14:51:06Z")
Hi, I cannot figure how to correct the position of the rotated xticks label in the following plot:
```julia
using Plots
a=["absmax_global", "absmax_global_ref", "absmax_local"]
b=[0.03953348557784052, 1.0667377825188347, 1.9650133306504352]
title="absmax speed"
plt=bar(a,b,xrotation=20,ylabel = "GComp/s",
title=title,label="",size=(600,400),
tickfont=font(12),guidefont=font(12))
display(plt)
```
Thank you for your help !
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### Author:  [@rafael.guerra](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/rafael.guerra)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2021, 4:56pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-fix-the-rotated-label-position-in-this-plot/68025/2 "2021-09-11T16:56:44Z")
Hi Laurent, using Plots.jl’ pgfplotsx() back-end and just escaping the underscores, your code plots better:
```julia
using Plots; pgfplotsx()
a=["absmax\\_global", "absmax\\_global\\_ref", "absmax\\_local"]
b=[0.03953348557784052, 1.0667377825188347, 1.9650133306504352]
title="absmax speed"
plt=bar(a,b, ylabel = "GComp/s",
title=title,label="",size=(600,400),
tickfont=font(12),guidefont=font(12),
xrotation = 20)
```
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### Author:  [@LaurentPlagne](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/LaurentPlagne)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2021, 5:51am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-fix-the-rotated-label-position-in-this-plot/68025/3 "2021-09-12T05:51:13Z")
Thank you Rafael.
Is there a solution with default back-end (GR) ?
(I use the sort of plot during training session and I would prefer to stick to basic/default tools).
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### Author:  [@rafael.guerra](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/rafael.guerra)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2021, 6:10am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-fix-the-rotated-label-position-in-this-plot/68025/4 "2021-09-12T06:10:03Z")
For the gr() backend please check a manual tick solution in this [thread](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/bar-chart-with-rotated-x-label-for-each-bar/28554/2).
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### Author:  [@LaurentPlagne](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/LaurentPlagne)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2021, 9:13am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-fix-the-rotated-label-position-in-this-plot/68025/5 "2021-09-12T09:13:45Z")
I try to follow the link and it seems that the manual tick method leads to the same problem…
```julia
using Plots
a=["absmax_global", "absmax_global_ref", "absmax_local"]
b=[0.03953348557784052, 1.0667377825188347, 1.9650133306504352]
title="absmax speed"
# plt=bar(a,b,xrotation=20,ylabel = "GComp/s",
# title=title,label="",size=(600,400),
# tickfont=font(12),guidefont=font(12))
l=length(a)
plt=bar(1:l,b, legend=false, xticks=(1:l,a), xrotation=20)
display(plt)
savefig(plt,"toto.png")
```
What is my mistake ?
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### Author:  [@rafael.guerra](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/rafael.guerra)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2021, 9:45am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-fix-the-rotated-label-position-in-this-plot/68025/6 "2021-09-12T09:45:15Z")
It seems there [are bugs](https://github.com/JuliaPlots/Plots.jl/issues/2107#issuecomment-515040645) not fixed on this matter.
Then we may need to get creative and use string padding:
```julia
using Plots; gr()
a=["absmax_global", "absmax_global_ref", "absmax_local"]
b=[0.03953348557784052, 1.0667377825188347, 1.9650133306504352]
title="absmax speed"
l=length(a)
plt=bar(1:l,b, legend=false, xticks=(1:l, a .* " "^18), xrotation=20)
```
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### Author:  [@LaurentPlagne](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/LaurentPlagne)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2021, 9:51am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-fix-the-rotated-label-position-in-this-plot/68025/7 "2021-09-12T09:51:09Z")
thank you very much ! Don’t know if this bug is a good news in general but I feel a bit release because I spent rather long time trying Plots options with no success 😆
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### Author:  [@rafael.guerra](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/rafael.guerra)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2021, 9:54am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-fix-the-rotated-label-position-in-this-plot/68025/8 "2021-09-12T09:54:12Z")
In example above, for padding the strings one could use the built-in function: `rpad.(a, 40)`, instead of `a .* " "^18`.