Re: [Matplotlib-users] missing ticks and TeX symbols

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

On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, Steve Schmerler apparently wrote: 
> I did some plots (MPL 0.82 on Linux), exported them as 
> .eps \includegraphics'ed them in TeX (latex -> dvipdf).  
> Some plot labels included r'$\tau$' and things like that. 
> Unfortunately when I print my document the TeX symbols are 
> missing. Moreover the x-axis tick numbers as well as the 
> xlabel are also not there. I know other people who also 
> had problems with missing or screwed up symbols when 
> printing out .pdfs (unrelated to TeX, MPL). Is there 
> anything I can do about that from the MPL side? 

1. If you view the EPS, say in GhostScript, is everything 
   there?
2. What is the bounding box (if you look in the EPS file)?  
   Is it all inside the page dimension set in your dvipdfm 
   config file?

Cheers,
Alan Isaac