Re: [Matplotlib-users] LaTeX, eps, ghostscript, and the like

[Darren D. <dd...@co...>]

Hi Robert,

I am working on clearing up the code for cvs, but wanted to double check with 
you: what did you have to do to fix the dvipng problem? I ask because I also 
have dvipng version 1.6, and dont have any problems with the cvs codebase. 
WOuld you send me the output of dvipng -v?

On Tuesday 07 February 2006 17:35, Robert Hetland wrote:
> On Feb 7, 2006, at 12:38 PM, John Hunter wrote:
> >             if vers<'1.6':
>
> This seemed to be the problem (perhaps vers<='1.6' is meant).  I use
> version dvipng version 1.6, but the alpha hack still seems to be
> required.  When I force the hack, the PNG output looks good.  Three
> cheers for the MPL-users list!  (Four for JDH!)
>
> Now, if you'll bear with me, I need to get EPS (then, ultimately,
> encapsulated PDF) output.  I am getting an error like (from
>
> verbose:helpful) :
>  >>> savefig('foo.eps')
>
> [.....]
>
> dvips: Font ecrm1000 at 72 not found; scaling 600 instead.
> dvips: Such scaling will generate extremely poor output.
>
>
> This is dvips(k) 5.95b Copyright 2005 Radical Eye Software
> (www.radicaleye.com)
> ' TeX output 2006.02.07:1621' -> /tmp/
> bc5f66f5eb5ed881504e9f305289dc95.ps
> <tex.pro><psfrag.pro><special.pro><color.pro>. [1
> <bc5f66f5eb5ed881504e9f305289dc95.eps>]
>
> GNU Ghostscript 8.16: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
>
>
>
> Any clues?
>
> -Rob
>
>
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