No the '\' is not the problem. \odot is a LaTeX command. I still have 
the problem if I don't use it (see below with only pylab.xlabel(r'Upper 
mass for the IMF (10$^3$)')) and \\odot writes 'odot' and doesn't write 
the 'odot' symbol.


Gary Ruben a écrit :
> I haven't tried it, but my guess is the '\' character is the problem.
>
> > pylab.xlabel('10$^3$ M$_\odot$')
>
> Try
> pylab.xlabel(r'10$^3$ M$_\odot$')
>              ^
>              Add raw string marker.
>
> or maybe
> pylab.xlabel('10$^3$ M$_\\odot$')
>
> Gary R.
>
> Nicolas Champavert wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>>   I have some problems when trying to save a figure with usetex=True. 
>> Sometimes, it is not possible to save the figure when trying to put 
>> an xlabel with LaTeX inside.
>> It works with pylab.xlabel('M$_\odot$') but not with 
>> pylab.xlabel('10$^3$ M$_\odot$') (see below). Do you know why ?
>

In [1]:import matplotlib

In [2]:import pylab

In [3]:matplotlib.__version__
Out[3]:'0.87.7'

In [4]:matplotlib.__revision__
Out[4]:'$Revision: 2905 $'

In [5]:matplotlib.rc('text',usetex=True)

In [6]:pylab.plot([0,1])
Out[6]:[<matplotlib.lines.Line2D instance at 0xb67dde4c>]

In [7]:pylab.xlabel(r'Upper mass for the IMF (10$^3$)')
Out[7]:<matplotlib.text.Text instance at 0xb693d62c>

In [8]:pylab.savefig('test.eps')
sh: line 1: 19944 Erreur de segmentation  gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -r6000 
-sDEVICE=pswrite -sPAPERSIZE=letter 
-sOutputFile="/tmp/098f6bcd4621d373cade4e832627b4f6.ps" 
"/tmp/098f6bcd4621d373cade4e832627b4f6" 
 >"/tmp/098f6bcd4621d373cade4e832627b4f6.output"
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
exceptions.RuntimeError                              Traceback (most 
recent call last)

/home/champavert/<ipython console>

/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/matplotlib/pylab.py in 
savefig(*args, **kwargs)
    811 def savefig(*args, **kwargs):
    812     fig = gcf()
--> 813     return fig.savefig(*args, **kwargs)
    814 if Figure.savefig.__doc__ is not None:
    815     savefig.__doc__ = _shift_string(Figure.savefig.__doc__)

/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/matplotlib/figure.py in 
savefig(self, *args, **kwargs)
    685                 kwargs[key] = rcParams['savefig.%s'%key]
    686
--> 687         self.canvas.print_figure(*args, **kwargs)
    688
    689     def colorbar(self, mappable, cax=None, **kw):

/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/matplotlib/backends/backend_tkagg.py 
in print_figure(self, filename, dpi, facecolor, edgecolor, orientation, 
**kwargs)
    184         if dpi is None: dpi = rcParams['savefig.dpi']
    185         agg = self.switch_backends(FigureCanvasAgg)
--> 186         agg.print_figure(filename, dpi, facecolor, edgecolor, 
orientation,
    187                          **kwargs)
    188         self.figure.set_canvas(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)
   1009             # Let's keep the usetex stuff seperate from the 
generic postscript
   1010             self._print_figure_tex(outfile, dpi, facecolor, 
edgecolor,
-> 1011                                    orientation, papertype)
   1012         else:
   1013             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)
   1243         elif rcParams['text.usetex']:
   1244             if False: pass # for debugging
-> 1245             else: gs_distill(tmpfile, ext=='.eps', 
ptype=papertype, bbox=bbox)
   1246
   1247         if  isinstance(outfile, file):

/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/matplotlib/backends/backend_ps.py 
in gs_distill(tmpfile, eps, ptype, bbox)
   1341     exit_status = os.system(command)
   1342     fh = file(outfile)
-> 1343     if exit_status: raise RuntimeError('ghostscript was not able 
to process \
   1344 your image.\nHere is the full report generated by 
ghostscript:\n\n' + fh.read())
   1345     else: verbose.report(fh.read(), 'debug')

RuntimeError: ghostscript was not able to process your image.
Here is the full report generated by ghostscript:

ESP Ghostscript 8.15 (2006-04-19)
Copyright (C) 2004 artofcode LLC, Benicia, CA.  All rights reserved.
This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file COPYING for details.

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