Hi Stefan,

On Monday 23 October 2006 11:17, Stefan van der Walt wrote:
> I am trying to generate graphs using
>
> text.usetex : True
> ps.usedistiller : xpdf
>
> Unfortunately, when running
>
> import pylab as P
> P.plot([10],[10])
> P.savefig('test.eps')
>
> I get an error message:
>
> File
> "/home/stefan//lib/python2.4/site-packages/matplotlib/backends/backend_ps.p
>y", line 1412, in get_bbox raise RuntimeError('Ghostscript was not able to
> extract a bounding box.\ RuntimeError: Ghostscript was not able to extract
> a bounding box.Here is the Ghostscript output:
>
> ESP Ghostscript 815.02: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
>
> When I run with --verbose-debug-annoying I see
>
> pdftops -paper match -level2 "/tmp/098f6bcd4621d373cade4e832627b4f6.pdf"
> "/tmp/098f6bcd4621d373cade4e832627b4f6.ps" >
> "/tmp/098f6bcd4621d373cade4e832627b4f6.output"
>
> gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=bbox "/tmp/098f6bcd4621d373cade4e832627b4f6"
> ESP Ghostscript 815.02 (2006-04-19)
> Copyright (C) 2004 artofcode LLC, Benicia, CA.  All rights reserved.
> This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details.
> ERROR: /undefined in pdfLastFill
>
> I am running gs v8.15.2, pdftops v3.00, dvipng v1.5 and xpdf v3.01.  Are
> these versions known to be incompatible, or is there possible a
> problem with the output generated by matplotlib?
>
> With
>
> ps.usedistiller : ghostscript
>
> everything runs smoothly, but the text looks pretty dismal.
>
> I would appreciate any advice on how to get this running!

I can't reproduce the problem here, using xpdf 3.01 (although xpdf -v returns 
3.00), pdftops 3.00, gpl ghostscript 8.54 and latex 3.141592-1.30.5-2.2 
(tetex 3.0 p1). 

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