Re: [Matplotlib-users] Latex characters don't show when I save to eps

[Darren D. <dsd...@gm...>]

On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 11:13 AM, Diaboflo <fh...@hw...> wrote:
>
> The simplest case would be:
>
> import pylab
> pylab.plot([1,2])
> pylab.xlabel("$\phi$")

Does this help:
pylab.xlabel(r"$\phi$")

> pylab.savefig("fig.png")
> pylab.savefig("fig.eps")
>
> The png has the xlabel as phi, the xlabel in the eps file is just empty.
>
> I use python 2.5, don't really know which version of matplotlib is installed
> but it is not older than a year.
>
> Here the latex part of matplotlibrc:
>
> ### LaTeX customizations. See
> http://www.scipy.org/Wiki/Cookbook/Matplotlib/UsingTex
> #text.usetex         : False  # use latex for all text handling. The
> following fonts
> ...
> #text.latex.unicode : False # use "ucs" and "inputenc" LaTeX packages for
> handling
> ...
> #text.latex.preamble :  # IMPROPER USE OF THIS FEATURE WILL LEAD TO LATEX
> FAILURES
> ...
> #text.dvipnghack     : False  # some versions of dvipng don't handle
> ...
> #text.markup         : 'plain'  # Affects how text, such as titles and
> labels, are
>
> Thanks for your answers so far.