Re: [Matplotlib-users] UsingTex: Nice thing to know and more problems

[Gary R. <gr...@bi...>]

Hi Kristen,

The PS backend is broken on my Win2k system too. I can only save as png, 
which isn't all that useful. I reported this a few weeks ago and I hope 
to get a chance to look at it next week to see if I can work out what's 
going on.
It's good to get confirmation that it's not just my Windows installation 
that's doing this.

Gary R.

kristen kaasbjerg wrote:
> Hi matplotliber's (windows users)
> 
> A few days ago I reported problems with the
> tex_demo.py script. Some solutions have been found
> meanwhile.
> 
> First of all, matplotlibrc is NOT put in the intended
> directory upon istallation. It resides in the old
> share\matplotlib\. This must be done manually!!
> 
> Secondly, when using TeX to create figure text, make
> sure that the directories where dvipng.exe, latex.exe,
> gs.exe etc are present in the system variable Path.
> For most latex/miktex installation this will probably
> be: C:\texmf\miktex\bin and C:\gs\.
> 
> I have still not made it work using the PS backend.
> Somewhere there is an eps and tex file that has not
> been put in the .matplotlib\tex.cache directory.
> 
> Also, much of the text doesn't come out correctly in
> the figures, so there are still problems when using
> TeX on Windows!!
> 
> Kristen