did you try to fix the size of the figure and the dpi?
N.
Eric Emsellem wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a problem saving eps files in certain conditions. Unfortunately I
> am unable to find a simple example which may be very illustrative here
> to show you when it works and when it does not.
> I include the error message below and so the question is: does anybody
> have a hint of why the savefig fails and crashes?
>
> (I tried to close('all'), rcdefaults, etc).
>
> thanks for any input,
>
> Eric
> =================
>
> >> savefig('toto.eps')
>
>
> Your figure is too big to fit on a4 paper. b4 paper will be used to
> prevent clipping.
> AFPL Ghostscript 8.51: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> exceptions.NameError Traceback (most
> recent call last)
>
> /home/science/Sauron/AnalysisKin/Paper7/<ipython console>
>
> /usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/matplotlib/pylab.py in
> savefig(*args, **kwargs)
> 809 def savefig(*args, **kwargs):
> 810 fig = gcf()
> --> 811 return fig.savefig(*args, **kwargs)
> 812 if Figure.savefig.__doc__ is not None:
> 813 savefig.__doc__ = _shift_string(Figure.savefig.__doc__)
>
> /usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/matplotlib/figure.py in
> savefig(self, *args, **kwargs)
> 673 kwargs[key] = rcParams['savefig.%s'%key]
> 674
> --> 675 self.canvas.print_figure(*args, **kwargs)
> 676
> 677 def colorbar(self, mappable, cax=None, **kw):
>
> /usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/matplotlib/backends/backend_gtkagg.py
> in print_figure(self, filename, dpi, facecolor, edgecolor, orientation,
> **kwargs)
> 112 try:
> 113 agg.print_figure(filename, dpi, facecolor,
> edgecolor,
> --> 114 orientation, **kwargs)
> 115 except IOError, msg:
> 116 error_msg_gtk('Failed to save\nError message:
> %s'%(msg,), self)
>
> /usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/matplotlib/backends/backend_agg.py
> in print_figure(self, filename, dpi, facecolor, edgecolor, orientation,
> **kwargs)
> 486 ps = self.switch_backends(FigureCanvasPS)
> 487 ps.print_figure(filename, dpi, facecolor, edgecolor,
> --> 488 orientation, **kwargs)
> 489 elif ext.find('pdf')>=0:
> 490 from backend_pdf import FigureCanvasPdf
>
> /usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/matplotlib/backends/backend_ps.py
> in print_figure(self, outfile, dpi, facecolor, edgecolor, orientation,
> papertype)
> 999 # Let's keep the usetex stuff seperate from the
> generic postscript
> 1000 self._print_figure_tex(outfile, dpi, facecolor,
> edgecolor,
> -> 1001 orientation, papertype)
> 1002 else:
> 1003 if isinstance(outfile, file):
>
> /usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/matplotlib/backends/backend_ps.py
> in _print_figure_tex(self, outfile, dpi, facecolor, edgecolor,
> orientation, papertype)
> 1233 elif rcParams['text.usetex']:
> 1234 if False: pass # for debugging
> -> 1235 else: gs_distill(tmpfile, ext=='.eps',
> ptype=papertype, bbox=bbox)
> 1236
> 1237 if isinstance(outfile, file):
>
> /usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/matplotlib/backends/backend_ps.py
> in gs_distill(tmpfile, eps, ptype, bbox)
> 1331 exit_status = os.system(command)
> 1332 fh = file(outfile)
> -> 1333 if exit_status: raise RuntimeError('ghostscript was not able
> to process \
> 1334 your image.\nHere is the full report generated by ghostscript: \
> 1335 \n\n'% dvifile + fh.read())
>
> NameError: global name 'dvifile' is not defined
>
>
> --
> ====================================================================
> Eric Emsellem [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Centre de Recherche Astrophysique de Lyon
> 9 av. Charles-Andre tel: +33 (0)4 78 86 83 84
> 69561 Saint-Genis Laval Cedex fax: +33 (0)4 78 86 83 86
> France http://www-obs.univ-lyon1.fr/eric.emsellem
> ====================================================================
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