# How to prevent ShrinkWrap from removing text?

Bug persisting through 11.2.0

When I use ShrinkWrap to remove the white space around my 3D graphics, it always removes any text around the edges. Say for example I plot a sphere and some text:

Show[Graphics3D[{Sphere[], Text[Style["ABC", 24], {1, 1, 1}]}], Boxed -> False]


And if I use ShrinkWrap, it removed the text and part of the sphere

Show[Graphics3D[{Sphere[], Text[Style["ABC", 24], {1, 1, 1}]}], Boxed -> False,
Method -> {"ShrinkWrap" -> True}]


How to prevent this?

• This is a bug. Please report it to the support. BTW, with version 8.0.4 the ball isn't cropped: screenshot. – Alexey Popkov Nov 26 '17 at 6:53
• @AlexeyPopkov OK, where do I report this bug? – updraft Nov 26 '17 at 7:27
• You send email to support@wolfram.com with MWE and information about your OS, version number, etc... you'l' get back a CASE number. – Nasser Nov 26 '17 at 7:35
• Nasser already answered about support. They'll ask you for output of {$Version,$ReleaseNumber, \$LicenseID}, so I recommend to include this in the original report. – Alexey Popkov Nov 26 '17 at 7:49

Try this to see if it works for you.

Show[Graphics3D[{Sphere[],Text[Style["ABC",24],{1,1,1}]}],
Boxed->False,
Method->{"ShrinkWrap"->True},
ViewVector->{{9,2,2},{0,0,0}}
]


Update

Using ImagePadding -> 0, PlotRangePadding -> 0 helps a little, as given by comment by Simon woods in method-shrinkwrap-messes-up-editting-graphics But the text is still missing, but sphere is not cropped.

Show[Graphics3D[{Sphere[],Text[Style["ABC",24],{1,1,1}]}],
Boxed->False,Method->{"ShrinkWrap"->True},


• (+1) Can you explain why specifying ViewVector helps in this case? – Alexey Popkov Nov 26 '17 at 6:58
• @AlexeyPopkov I just noticed that by moving the image with the mouse did bring the text back. So by trial and error, this view vector was the best to show the text in this case. – Nasser Nov 26 '17 at 7:01
• How do I know which specification for ViewVector to use though? Can it be done when there are multiple texts at several different margins? – updraft Nov 26 '17 at 7:24
• @L.Quen as I said, this was by trial and error for this case. This is just a workaround for the example you showed. This looks like a bug as was suggested. I could not find a general workaround for all cases at this time. The text is there. (you can see that by moving the image with the mouse). It is just that the view gets messed up and needs manual adjustment. – Nasser Nov 26 '17 at 7:25
• OK thanks for the help – updraft Nov 26 '17 at 7:27