Re: [Matplotlib-users] Latex, Labels and PDF

[Peter <pw...@st...>]

Hi,

> Try getting your system set up to use the xpdf distiller, that has always 
> given me excellent results.

Thanks alot! Using xpdf gives perfect results!
http://www.staff.uni-mainz.de/wuertz/matplotlib/xpdf_tof_spectrum_bec_500ns.eps
http://www.staff.uni-mainz.de/wuertz/matplotlib/xpdf_tof_spectrum_bec_500ns.pdf

> There have been many problems reported on this mailing list that concern latex 
> markup. Most often, people have difficulty getting usetex to work because 
> matplotlib depends on latex, dvipng, ghostscript, and optionally xpdf (more 
> precisely, xpdf's pdftops utility).

The problem is, the whole plot/ps/eps/dvi/ghostscript/pdf/xpdf/distiller
process is totally obscure to a normal user. For example, i don't have
xpdf installed... but choosing the xpdf setting gives me perfect results
now. If I understand you correctly, I just need the "pdftops" utility
included in "poppler-utils".

Well, thanks again!

-
Peter