On 2014/05/07 2:34 AM, Neal Becker wrote:
> Neal Becker wrote:
>
>> I tried the simple example, but all examples I try choke on savefig
>> ('blah.pdf') This is fedora20 linux, with pretty modern, complete texlive.
>>
>> I tried rm'ing tex-cache
>>
>> ---------------- example.py
>> # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
>>
>> import matplotlib as mpl
>> mpl.use("pgf")
>> pgf_with_rc_fonts = {
>> "font.family": "serif",
>> "font.serif": [], # use latex default serif font
>> "font.sans-serif": ["DejaVu Sans"], # use a specific sans-serif font
>> }
>> mpl.rcParams.update(pgf_with_rc_fonts)
>>
>> import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
>> plt.figure(figsize=(4.5,2.5))
>> plt.plot(range(5))
>> plt.text(0.5, 3., "serif")
>> plt.text(0.5, 2., "monospace", family="monospace")
>> plt.text(2.5, 2., "sans-serif", family="sans-serif")
>> plt.text(2.5, 1., "comic sans", family="Comic Sans MS")
>> plt.xlabel(u"ยต is not $\\mu$")
>> plt.tight_layout(.5)
>> ----------------------
>>
>> python testpgf.py
>> /usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/__init__.py:758: UserWarning:
>> Found matplotlib configuration in ~/.matplotlib/. To conform with the XDG
>> base
>> directory standard, this configuration location has been deprecated on Linux,
>> and the new location is now '/home/nbecker/.config'/matplotlib/. Please move
>> your configuration there to ensure that matplotlib will continue to find it
>> in
>> the future.
>> _get_xdg_config_dir())
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>> File "testpgf.py", line 20, in <module>
>> plt.tight_layout(.5)
>> File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/pyplot.py", line 1255,
>> in
>> tight_layout
>> fig.tight_layout(pad=pad, h_pad=h_pad, w_pad=w_pad, rect=rect)
>> File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/figure.py", line 1600,
>> in
>> tight_layout
>> renderer = get_renderer(self)
>> File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/tight_layout.py", line
>> 222, in get_renderer
>> renderer = canvas.get_renderer()
>> File
>> "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/backends/backend_pgf.py",
>> line 925, in get_renderer
>> return RendererPgf(self.figure, None, dummy=True)
>> File
>> "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/backends/backend_pgf.py",
>> line 409, in __init__
>> self.latexManager = LatexManagerFactory.get_latex_manager()
>> File
>> "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/backends/backend_pgf.py",
>> line 223, in get_latex_manager
>> new_inst = LatexManager()
>> File
>> "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/backends/backend_pgf.py",
>> line 305, in __init__
>> cwd=self.tmpdir)
>> File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 711, in __init__
>> errread, errwrite)
>> File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 1308, in _execute_child
>> raise child_exception
>> OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
>>
> Figured it out. problem is xelatex was not installed. Too bad the traceback
> can't be more clear on this.
This sounds like something that can be fixed quite easily in mpl, and
that if not fixed is likely to trip up other people. Would you turn this
into a github issue, please? Or, a PR?
Thank you.
Eric
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