Thanks, Mike.
I've been away from the Windows machine for a couple of days. I did
ps.useafm set and your suggestion solved the problem.
Is there a reason not to use TrueType in all of my figures (since it
wasn't enabled by default)?
Thanks,
Oscar.
On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 11:06:10AM -0400, Michael Droettboom wrote:
> You probably have "ps.useafm" set, right? Unfortunately, the stock
> Postscript AFM fonts do not have a blackboard style. Setting
> ps.useafm to False will use Truetype fonts, and it should work.
>
> Cheers,
> Mike
>
> On 05/24/2011 10:50 AM, Oscar Benjamin wrote:
> >Hello,
> >
> >I'm getting an error using latex mathbb and exporting to eps. The
> >following script demonstrates:
> >
> >from pylab import figure, show
> >fig = figure()
> >ax = fig.add_subplot(1, 1, 1)
> >ax.set_title(r'$\mathbb{R}$')
> >fig.savefig('mathbb.eps')
> >
> >On Windows the above gives me a long traceback ending with:
> >IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory:
> >'q:\\tools\\Python26\\lib\\site-packages\\matplotlib\\mpl-data\\fonts\\afm\\bb.afm'
> >
> >It works fine if using \mathbf instead of \mathbb or when saving
> >to pdf etc.
> >
> >I thought I had this working on Linux, does anyone know if this is
> >a problem to do with my installation, or maybe an unsupported
> >feature.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Oscar.
> >
> >
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