Re: [Matplotlib-users] tex rendering broken?

[Martin W. <mwi...@gm...>]

I just downgraded to matplotlib 1.1.1 and now everything works. Looks
like a regression to me.

On Fri, 2014-10-31 at 15:53 +0000, Martin Wiebusch wrote:
> I am having trouble executing the example for typesetting labels with
> latex from http://matplotlib.org/users/usetex.html. Copying the standard
> example, tex_demo.py, to a file and executing it gives the following
> output:
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "scratch.py", line 21, in <module>
>     plt.savefig('tex_demo')
>   File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/matplotlib/pyplot.py", line 561, in
> savefig
>     return fig.savefig(*args, **kwargs)
>   File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/matplotlib/figure.py", line 1421,
> in savefig
>     self.canvas.print_figure(*args, **kwargs)
>   File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/matplotlib/backend_bases.py", line
> 2220, in print_figure
>     **kwargs)
>   File
> "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/matplotlib/backends/backend_agg.py", line
> 505, in print_png
>     FigureCanvasAgg.draw(self)
>   File
> "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/matplotlib/backends/backend_agg.py", line
> 451, in draw
>     self.figure.draw(self.renderer)
>   File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/matplotlib/artist.py", line 55, in
> draw_wrapper
>     draw(artist, renderer, *args, **kwargs)
>   File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/matplotlib/figure.py", line 1034,
> in draw
>     func(*args)
>   File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/matplotlib/artist.py", line 55, in
> draw_wrapper
>     draw(artist, renderer, *args, **kwargs)
>   File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/matplotlib/axes.py", line 2086, in
> draw
>     a.draw(renderer)
>   File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/matplotlib/artist.py", line 55, in
> draw_wrapper
>     draw(artist, renderer, *args, **kwargs)
>   File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/matplotlib/axis.py", line 1105, in
> draw
>     self.label.draw(renderer)
>   File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/matplotlib/artist.py", line 55, in
> draw_wrapper
>     draw(artist, renderer, *args, **kwargs)
>   File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/matplotlib/text.py", line 594, in
> draw
>     self._fontproperties, angle, mtext=self)
>   File
> "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/matplotlib/backends/backend_agg.py", line
> 241, in draw_tex
>     self._renderer.draw_text_image(Z, x, y, angle, gc)
> OverflowError: cannot convert float infinity to integer
> 
> My system is
> 
> Linux mwlaptop 3.16.0-24-generic #32-Ubuntu SMP Tue Oct 28 13:07:32 UTC
> 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> 
> My matplotlib version is 1.3.1, and I am using standard packages from my
> Ubuntu 14.10 distribution.
> 
>