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

[Robert H. <he...@ta...>]

I am using the I-Installer version of teTeX on Mac OS X.  I imagine  
that many other Mac users might be experiencing similar problems.   
Here is what worked for me, with many thanks to Darren for helping me  
work through this:

First, using the dvipng 'hack' for dvipng versions less than 1.6  
worked to get me PNG output using LaTeX.  Also, commenting out line  
141 in texmanager:

         self._font_preamble = '\n'.join([r'\usepackage{type1cm}',
                              cmd,
#                             r'\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}',     # The  
guilty line
                              r'\usepackage{textcomp}'])k

allowed me to save EPS files that work very well.

Finally, for those of you interested in editing EPS files in  
Illustrator, you need to worry about the absence of the Computer  
Modern fonts in Adobe products.  This link (really work checking out  
if you do scientific graphics on a Mac) explains how to get  
everything working for Illustrator CS and CS2:

http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~noeckel/Illustrator.html


Finally, an answer to Darren's qustion:

On Feb 9, 2006, at 8:06 AM, Darren Dale wrote:

> WOuld you send me the output of dvipng -v?

~$ dvipng --version
This is dvipng 1.6 Copyright 2002-2005 Jan-Ake Larsson
dvipng 1.6
kpathsea version 3.5.5
Copyright (C) 2002-2005 Jan-Ake Larsson.
There is NO warranty.  You may redistribute this software
under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
For more information about these matters, see the files
named COPYING and dvipng.c.


-Rob


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