Fix render backend issues for animating graphs#720
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…ng the established geometry on later dirty frames instead of re-running tight layout each time. Add a regression test that saves a small animation and verifies only the first save-time layout pass uses tight layout.
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Closes #718
This fixes the layout shifting reported when saving animations by making UltraPlot run a full tight-layout pass only on the first saved frame, then reuse the established geometry on later dirty frames instead of repeatedly re-running tight=True during FuncAnimation.save(). The root issue was that frame updates like axs.format(...) were marking the figure layout dirty, and the save-time canvas preprocessing was then tightening the layout again for each subsequent frame, which could cause visible position changes early in the animation, especially with writer="ffmpeg". The change lives in ultraplot/figure.py, where save-time layout processing now falls back to fig.auto_layout(tight=False) after the first saved frame, and it is covered by a regression test in ultraplot/tests/test_animation.py that saves a small animation and verifies that only the first save-time layout pass uses tight layout.