Hi all, After trying several ways around this problem, I've found a solution that is pretty straightforward and produces nice results. The problem I'm referring to is that when I saved my figures as encapsulated PostScript for inclusion in a LaTeX document, the figures came out missing certain text when the document is converted to pdf (e.g. using dvipdf on the dvi file or ps2pdf on the ps file created using dvips).
One solution is to set the rcParams['text.usetex'] = True, but that leads to a different font (serif) used for the numbers and for the axis labels (there are ways around that also...) But the best way that I've found is to save the figures as pdf and then convert them to eps by using pdftops with the -eps flag. You do lose transparency that way, but the figure, including text, looks good. You can also use the convert command from the ImageMagick package to do the pdf to eps conversion, which maintains the transparency at the cost of a worse looking figure (bitmapped) overall. It'd be nice to know exactly why this problem occurs in the first place. I assume it has to do with the interaction of pdf with some fonts used in mathtext. Jon -- ______________________________________________________________ Jonathan D. Slavin Harvard-Smithsonian CfA jsla...@cfa.harvard.edu 60 Garden Street, MS 83 phone: (617) 496-7981 Cambridge, MA 02138-1516 cell: (781) 363-0035 USA ______________________________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get a FREE DOWNLOAD! and learn more about uberSVN rich system, user administration capabilities and model configuration. Take the hassle out of deploying and managing Subversion and the tools developers use with it. http://p.sf.net/sfu/wandisco-d2d-2 _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
