Hi Otto,

I can confirm the effect you are describing (my system: 11.0.1 for Linux x86 (64-bit) (September 21, 2016)) and I find this a "strange behavior" indeed. As result of AbsoluteOptions I would expect some absolute value, not some scaled - the documentation seems to indicate the same! Interestingly this appears to be different (i.e. OK) in older versions, e.g.:

Regards -- Henrik

Hello Sander,

Thanks for replying to my post. I think I mean to use the PlotRangePadding option (one percent sign).

If I set plot b to be the same as a, but implicitly entering the PlotRange option that a used, then I think nothing happens, and plot b will look the same as plot a as it should be (although strangely enough, in that case the value for PlotRangePadding changes).

But my point remains as originally stated. If I use in plot b the value of PlotRangePadding that a used, then the plot changes. Apparently, entering an implicit value for one of these options changes the other. In either case I do not get the result I wanted, which is to use the same padding in y as used in x.

Thanks,

Otto Linsuaín

You need the answer before that:

a = ListPlot[Table[{x, x}, {x, 1, 5, 0.01}]]
AbsoluteOptions[a, PlotRange]
AbsoluteOptions[a, PlotRangePadding]
b = ListPlot[Table[{x, x}, {x, 1, 5, 0.01}], %%[[1]]] (* notice the double percent here *)
AbsoluteOptions[b, PlotRange]
AbsoluteOptions[b, PlotRangePadding]