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

[Steve S. <el...@gm...>]

Alan G Isaac wrote:
> 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
> 

1.) yes, the plots are fine

2.) yes, the bounding box is large enough

I attached one of the .eps files I was talking about. In the printed 
.pdf where this is included the xlabel "T/K" as well as the numbers on 
the x-axis are missing. The "x"s in the legend box are also missing so 
it isn't a bb problem.

I used dvipdf to convert .dvi -> .pdf (which I've learned only uses 
dvips and gs with some pdfwrite options) and not dvipdfm. Is it 
recommended to use dvipdfm over dvipdf?

cheers,
steve