Just in case, I have opened a git issue on this.

https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/131

-JJ



On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 1:23 PM, Jae-Joon Lee <lee.j.j...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm not 100% sure on this but it seems that this is a limitation of
> "psfrag" that the ps backend relies on. The ps backend first produces
> an eps file without TeX labels, and these TeX labels are put on the
> eps file with latex+psfrag. And it seems  these TeX labels are always
> above the contents of the eps file.
>
> Unfortunately, I don't think this can be easily fixed.
> Regards,
>
> -JJ
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 6:34 AM, Brannon <gilt...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am having trouble with matplotlib 1.0.1 drawing the axis tick labels over
>> the legend box in the eps output when useTex is set to true. The plot shown
>> after calling plt.show() looks fine, as does the output in pdf, png, svg
>> etc. Only the postscript appears to be affected.
>>
>> The following simple example produces the png and eps files given at the
>> bottom of this post:
>>
>> import matplotlib as mpl
>> import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
>> from matplotlib import rc
>>
>> rc('text', usetex=True)
>>
>> g1 = plt.plot([1,2,3,4],[500,600,700,800])
>> g2 = plt.plot([1,2,3,4],[700,300,700,200])
>> g3 = plt.plot([1,2,3,4],[800,600,900,800])
>>
>> plt.figlegend([g1,g2,g3],['test1','test2','test3'],'upper left')
>>
>> plt.savefig('image.png')
>> plt.savefig('image.eps')
>>
>> plt.show()
>>
>> http://old.nabble.com/file/p31744864/image.eps image.eps
>> http://old.nabble.com/file/p31744864/image.png image.png
>>
>> I would very much appreciate some help resolving this issue.
>>
>> Thanks
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