[Matplotlib-users] problem with ghostscript

[Stefan v. d. W. <st...@su...>]

Hi,

I am trying to generate graphs using

text.usetex : True
ps.usedistiller : xpdf

Unfortunately, when running

import pylab as P
P.plot([10],[10])
P.savefig('test.eps')

I get an error message:

File "/home/stefan//lib/python2.4/site-packages/matplotlib/backends/backe=
nd_ps.py", line 1412, in get_bbox
    raise RuntimeError('Ghostscript was not able to extract a bounding bo=
x.\
RuntimeError: Ghostscript was not able to extract a bounding box.Here is =
the Ghostscript output:

ESP Ghostscript 815.02: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1

When I run with --verbose-debug-annoying I see

pdftops -paper match -level2 "/tmp/098f6bcd4621d373cade4e832627b4f6.pdf" =
"/tmp/098f6bcd4621d373cade4e832627b4f6.ps" > "/tmp/098f6bcd4621d373cade4e=
832627b4f6.output"

gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=3Dbbox "/tmp/098f6bcd4621d373cade4e832627b4=
f6"
ESP Ghostscript 815.02 (2006-04-19)
Copyright (C) 2004 artofcode LLC, Benicia, CA.  All rights reserved.
This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details.
ERROR: /undefined in pdfLastFill

I am running gs v8.15.2, pdftops v3.00, dvipng v1.5 and xpdf v3.01.  Are
these versions known to be incompatible, or is there possible a
problem with the output generated by matplotlib?

With

ps.usedistiller : ghostscript

everything runs smoothly, but the text looks pretty dismal.

I would appreciate any advice on how to get this running!

Thanks
St=E9fan