It seems that removing 'restore' on line 1073 of the test_tex_r8216.eps file
fixes the problem, although I don't understand postscript well enough to
understand why that is.
Thomas
On Apr 2, 2010, at 9:30 AM, Michael Droettboom wrote:
> Can you provide us with the EPS file? What version of LaTeX is this?
>
> Mike
>
> Thomas Robitaille wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I upgraded to the latest svn version of matplotlib today, and found that eps
>> files produced with the system latex now seem to be invalid. For example, if
>> I run the following script
>>
>> import matplotlib
>> matplotlib.use('Agg')
>> import matplotlib.pyplot as mpl
>>
>> mpl.rc('text', usetex=False)
>>
>> fig = mpl.figure()
>> ax = fig.add_subplot(1,1,1)
>> fig.savefig('test_notex.eps')
>>
>> mpl.rc('text', usetex=True)
>>
>> fig = mpl.figure()
>> ax = fig.add_subplot(1,1,1)
>> fig.savefig('test_tex.eps')
>>
>> and try running pstopdf on them (on MacOS 10.6) I get the following
>>
>> air:air tom$ pstopdf test_tex.eps %%[ Warning: Empty job. No PDF file
>> produced. ] %%
>> air:air tom$ pstopdf test_notex.eps air:air tom$
>> So the file with the system LaTeX enabled no longer works. ps2pdf still
>> works, but the error with pstopdf is important, because for example
>> Preview.app on mac relies on pstopdf, not ps2pdf.
>>
>> I tried this on two different computers under MacOS 10.6, and tried with
>> ghostscript 8.70 and 8.71 installed, and the problem occurs either way.
>>
>> Does anyone know what might be causing this? I submitted a bug report a
>> little while back about this
>>
>> https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2974953&group_id=80706&atid=560720
>>
>> Thanks in advance for any help,
>>
>> Thomas
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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