I can confirm that this is broken in 0.98.3 and fixed in SVN. It's not
clear if a simple patch is possible -- the fix actually extends over a
number of changesets.
If you're able to build from SVN, I'm rather certain that should resolve
this issue. Otherwise, you may have to wait for the next
If you have "ps.useafm" set to True, (and "text.usetex" set to False),
the mathtext renderer will stick to the standard 35 ps fonts, with the
obvious limitations in the number of symbols available, and no radical
signs, etc. By default, all math is serif (in this case Times). You
can force sa
Many scientific journals ask that authors submit figures as eps
files, preferably using one of the standard 35 ps fonts--usually
Helvetica or Times. I've been able to tweak the matplotlib.rc
file to make eps plot files that have all the numbers and labels
in Helvetica (or Times), but have a problem
