Re: [Matplotlib-users] Problem with savefig and usetex

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

Nicolas Champavert wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>   I have some problems when trying to save a figure with usetex=True. 
> Sometimes, it is not possible to save the figure when trying to put an 
> xlabel with LaTeX inside.
> It works with pylab.xlabel('M$_\odot$') but not with 
> pylab.xlabel('10$^3$ M$_\odot$') (see below). Do you know why ?
> 


Works fine here, with and w/o raw strings.

In [75]: rcParams['text.usetex']=True

In [76]: plot([1,2,3])
Out[76]: [<matplotlib.lines.Line2D instance at 0xa0db754c>]

In [77]: xlabel('10$^3$ M$_\odot$')
Out[77]: <matplotlib.text.Text instance at 0xa0daea2c>

In [78]: savefig('test.eps')

In [79]: matplotlib.__version__
Out[79]: '0.87.7'

In [80]: matplotlib.__revision__
Out[80]: '$Revision: 2835 $'


Maybe you need to upgrade, but that's just a guess.

-- 
cheers,
steve

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