Re: [matplotlib-devel] Y axis scaling bug

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>>>>> "Fernando" == Fernando Perez <Fer...@co...> writes:

    Fernando> Well, I actually tried to see it but gv (Fedora Core 2)
    Fernando> chokes on the file: CPU utilization goes to 100% after
    Fernando> displaying the axes, labels, and a tiny bit of the
    Fernando> graph.  I killed it after a while.

I had the same problem with ggv (but I converted it with ps2pdf and
viewed it as pdf).  What are you using as a PS viewer Paul?

One thing that concerns about embedding truetype fonts in PS figures
is that they don't look very good in standard viewers (xdvi, ggv)
though they seem to print fine, at least on the printers I've tried.
It may be that the viewers don't have very good truetype rendering
algorithms.

I'm on the fence about whether we should revert to the afm fonts for
plain text in PS, and just use truetype for mathtext and if
explicitly requested using a yet-to-be-determined mechanism.  These
certainly look better in the PS viewers I've tried.  Of course the
truetype fonts offer the same look and feel across backends, which is
why I am on the fence.  Any opinions here?

    Fernando> Are there known problems with the Postscript generated
    Fernando> by matplotlib?  Can it produce EPS directly (better for
    Fernando> publication)?

EPS: yes - just save as *.eps from just about any backend.

The only reported problem I've heard was a post from Flavio Coelho

  While on the same topic, I had some problems inserting matplotlib
  generated PS plots into TeXMacs, although they open normally in gv,
  for instance. have you have seen any compatibility issues for the PS
  files and other PS viewing programs?  Running ps2ps on the
  matplotlib PS files resolved the problem. However I wanted to use
  TexMacs as a frontend to use matplotlib interactively...

Paul, so we could help narrow this problem with gv and your figure,
could you try generating it with 0.60.2 (which uses AFM if I recall
correctly) to see if it is related to the new font handling in PS?

Thanks,
JDH