Re[2]: [Matplotlib-users] dvipdfm problem with the matplotlib eps files

[Alan G I. <ai...@am...>]

On Fri, 2 Sep 2005, Darren Dale apparently wrote: 
> are you using a mac? 

No. I'm on a PC.  And although I in general understand 
John's request for a script, I think the EPS file I provided 
will be more helpful in pinning this down.  It took me 
a while to see it, but finally I got it.

If you look at the bounding box, it is outside all standard 
paper sizes.  Now it turns out that pdfwrite assumes a paper 
size and clips outside that size.  Thus my figure did not 
show because it was clipped.  This does not happen when one
uses dvips because the EPS file is handled *as* an EPS 
*before* creation of the PDF file.

Lesson (I think): matplotlib should create its EPS files so 
that they have bounding boxes inside a4 width and letter 
paper height boundaries, or people will have trouble with 
their standard configurations of some standard tools.

Alan Isaac

PS I belive the matplotlib EPS files are written with 
a superfluous gsave (just search for 'gsave' and you'll find 
it in the file where it should not be), but this is not the 
source of my problem.