[Matplotlib-users] All kinds of issues inslalling basemap under Ubuntu 8.10 64bit [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2009-01-07 Thread Scott Collis
Greetings... I have been using basemap extensively to do presentation graphics under quite a wide variety of platforms but I got a new 64bit dual core laptop recently and have been having all kinds of problems installing it... I am using (K)ubuntu 8.10 and have tried to install it two ways...

Re: [Matplotlib-users] All kinds of issues inslalling basemap under Ubuntu 8.10 64bit [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2009-01-07 Thread Jeff Whitaker
Scott Collis wrote: Greetings... I have been using basemap extensively to do presentation graphics under quite a wide variety of platforms but I got a new 64bit dual core laptop recently and have been having all kinds of problems installing it... I am using (K)ubuntu 8.10 and have tried

[Matplotlib-users] An issue with Basemap high resolution under Windows

2009-01-07 Thread Mauro Cavalcanti
Dear Jeff ALL, A user just reported to me that he has found a problem when tryng to create a map using the high resolution option under MS-Windows. He is running Basemap version 0.99.1 with Python 2.5 (from the Enthought Python Distribution) and got the following error: IOError: Unable to open

[Matplotlib-users] updating image in wxpython gui...

2009-01-07 Thread Lewis, Ambrose J.
Hi All: I'm very new to matplotlib, but it seems like a very powerful tool! I'm trying to write a wxpython GUI that displays an image from a data file that the user selected. I've looked at a bunch of examples, but can't seem to get it quite right. I've initialized the image to a buffer of

Re: [Matplotlib-users] An issue with Basemap high resolution under Windows

2009-01-07 Thread Jeff Whitaker
Mauro Cavalcanti wrote: Dear Jeff ALL, A user just reported to me that he has found a problem when tryng to create a map using the high resolution option under MS-Windows. He is running Basemap version 0.99.1 with Python 2.5 (from the Enthought Python Distribution) and got the following

Re: [Matplotlib-users] updating image in wxpython gui...

2009-01-07 Thread John Hunter
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 7:57 AM, Lewis, Ambrose J. ambrose.j.le...@saic.com wrote: Hi All: I'm very new to matplotlib, but it seems like a very powerful tool! I'm trying to write a wxpython GUI that displays an image from a data file that the user selected. I've looked at a bunch of

Re: [Matplotlib-users] [matplotlib-devel] What would you like to see in a book about Matplotlib?

2009-01-07 Thread James K. Gruetzner
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Great discussion. I think this tangent indicates a need for a section to explain both the history of pylab, matplotlib.pyplot, and how they relate. (I'm still confused at what exactly the difference is.) My perspective is that of a scientist

Re: [Matplotlib-users] An issue with Basemap high resolution under Windows

2009-01-07 Thread Mauro Cavalcanti
Dear Jeff, Thanks. I advised the user to download the latest version of Basemap from the SF site and perfom an upgrade. Hope this may fix the problem. Best regards, 2009/1/7 Jeff Whitaker jsw...@fastmail.fm: Mauro Cavalcanti wrote: Dear Jeff ALL, A user just reported to me that he has

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Switching between different font settings

2009-01-07 Thread Jouni K . Seppänen
Johan Ekh ekh.jo...@gmail.com writes: I am trying to use helvetica and yes, text(r'$1+2+3={}$1+2+3') gives me helvetica for the non math mode case. But how do I get math mode to use the same font? You can't. The problem is that while Helvetica contains all the usual letters and numbers, TeX

[Matplotlib-users] Tick formatting

2009-01-07 Thread Paul Novak
Hello, Using the following simple script, the scientific notation used on the y-axis is missing a multiplication symbol, as seen in the figure. My matplotlibrc file consists of backend : GTKAgg and I am using SVN r6760. I found this when I was trying to change the ScalarFormatter to

[Matplotlib-users] Two bugs when plotting date/time histograms

2009-01-07 Thread Simson Garfinkel
Hi! Below is a sample program. It demonstrates two bugs when plotting date/ time histograms. 1. When the y scale is made log, the histogram points plot as lines, but when the y scale is not log, they histogram plots as bars. I do not think that the look of the bars should change depending

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Two bugs when plotting date/time histograms

2009-01-07 Thread Eric Firing
Simson Garfinkel wrote: import matplotlib matplotlib.use('agg.pdf') Simson, Sorry to be addressing a side point, not your real questions, but your example shows up a bug in matplotlib.use, which I will fix shortly. There is an agg backend, and there is a pdf backend, but there is no

Re: [Matplotlib-users] All kinds of issues inslalling basemap under Ubuntu 8.10 64bit [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2009-01-07 Thread Scott Collis
Thanks Jeff or all your help (and Scott too... and all the people that have posted to this list over the years... it is an amazing source of information... A great example of why open source works so well for those in the scientific community) Jeff's libgeos mod worked... after some

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Tick formatting

2009-01-07 Thread Paul Novak
I don't think this is a regression; I guess what I was looking for was an rcParam or a kwarg to set useMathText. Would it make sense to set useMathText=True by default? Thanks, Paul Michael Droettboom wrote: I think this is just historical, since matplotlib never used to rely on having

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Two bugs when plotting date/time histograms

2009-01-07 Thread Simson Garfinkel
Eric, Thanks for addressing the side-issue. If there were a simple way to list all of the backends, that might help? Any idea about the main point? On Jan 7, 2009, at 12:52 PM, Eric Firing wrote: Simson Garfinkel wrote: import matplotlib matplotlib.use('agg.pdf') Simson, Sorry to be