Re: [Matplotlib-users] Error using ps2pdf on recent matplotlib svn

[Michael D. <md...@st...>]

John Travers wrote:
> On 16/07/07, Michael Droettboom <md...@st...> wrote:
>> I wonder if these troubles are related to my recent changes to subset
>> the fonts.  Could you try setting the rc variable ps.fonttype to 42, and
>> let me know if that works?
>
> It is something to do with fonts, if I remove the line:
>
> rc('font',**{'family':'sans-serif','sans-serif':['DejaVu 
> Sans'],'size':12})
>
> the problem goes away. I'll try and construct a minimal script if you
> want, but I guess the above is where the problem lies. Is this line
> wrong in some way?
That line is not wrong.  It turns out that the DejaVu fonts (unlike any 
of the fonts I had tested with) have newline characters in the Copyright 
string.  This was messing up the comments in the PostScript file.

Thanks for helping to find this bug!  It should be fixed in 3538.

Cheers,
Mike