For the benefit of the mailing list & developers, this fix works fine
for me (OS X Tiger 10.4.7)
Cheers John.
Dave
On 04/09/06, John Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>>>> "David" == David Andrews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> David> Hiya, i'm having a problem getting a valid postscript file
> David> produced on OS X. Using the example subplot_demo.py,
> David> modified to include the line:
>
> David> savefig('subplot_demo')
>
> David> in the place of the show() command, and running it using:
>
> David> python subplot_demo.py -dPS
>
> David> Produces the .ps file (available here for reference:
> David> http://www.irbdavid.com/misc/subplot_demo.ps ), which can't
> David> be opened by Preview on os x - says its can't convert it to
> David> PDF & cant open the file. Checked the permissions etc on
> David> the file and they're fine.
>
> David> Its pretty much a default installation of matplotlib etc,
> David> and output displays fine on screen, using the wxPython /
> David> wxAgg thing (I think that's what i mean :D )
>
> We've noticed this on tiger several times. Some default system fault
> is causing troubles though we haven't identified which one. The
> recommended fix it to put the Vera fonts (which matplotlib ships with)
> first in your rc file (http://matplotlib.sf.net/matplotlibrc) and
> remove your ~/.matplotlib/ttf.cache before rerunning
>
> Ie, you fonts section of ex should look something like this:
>
>
> font.serif : Bitstream Vera Serif, New Century Schoolbook, Century
> Schoolbook L, Utopia, ITC Bookman, Bookman, Nimbus Roman No9 L, Times New
> Roman, Times, Palatino, Charter, serif
> font.sans-serif : Bitstream Vera Sans, Lucida Grande, Verdana, Geneva,
> Lucid, Arial, Helvetica, Avant Garde, sans-serif
> font.cursive : Apple Chancery, Textile, Zapf Chancery, Sand, cursive
> font.fantasy : Comic Sans MS, Chicago, Charcoal, Impact, Western,
> fantasy
> font.monospace : Bitstream Vera Sans Mono, Andale Mono, Nimbus Mono L,
> Courier New, Courier, Fixed, Terminal, monospace
>
> In future releases of mpl, this will be the default.
>
> JDH
>
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