Neal Becker wrote:
> I tried the simple example, but all examples I try choke on savefig
> ('blah.pdf') This is fedora20 linux, with pretty modern, complete texlive.
>
> I tried rm'ing tex-cache
>
> ---------------- example.py
> # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
>
> import matplotlib as mpl
> mpl.use("pgf")
> pgf_with_rc_fonts = {
> "font.family": "serif",
> "font.serif": [], # use latex default serif font
> "font.sans-serif": ["DejaVu Sans"], # use a specific sans-serif font
> }
> mpl.rcParams.update(pgf_with_rc_fonts)
>
> import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
> plt.figure(figsize=(4.5,2.5))
> plt.plot(range(5))
> plt.text(0.5, 3., "serif")
> plt.text(0.5, 2., "monospace", family="monospace")
> plt.text(2.5, 2., "sans-serif", family="sans-serif")
> plt.text(2.5, 1., "comic sans", family="Comic Sans MS")
> plt.xlabel(u"ยต is not $\\mu$")
> plt.tight_layout(.5)
> ----------------------
>
> python testpgf.py
> /usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/__init__.py:758: UserWarning:
> Found matplotlib configuration in ~/.matplotlib/. To conform with the XDG base
> directory standard, this configuration location has been deprecated on Linux,
> and the new location is now '/home/nbecker/.config'/matplotlib/. Please move
> your configuration there to ensure that matplotlib will continue to find it in
> the future.
> _get_xdg_config_dir())
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "testpgf.py", line 20, in <module>
> plt.tight_layout(.5)
> File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/pyplot.py", line 1255,
> in
> tight_layout
> fig.tight_layout(pad=pad, h_pad=h_pad, w_pad=w_pad, rect=rect)
> File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/figure.py", line 1600,
> in
> tight_layout
> renderer = get_renderer(self)
> File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/tight_layout.py", line
> 222, in get_renderer
> renderer = canvas.get_renderer()
> File
> "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/backends/backend_pgf.py",
> line 925, in get_renderer
> return RendererPgf(self.figure, None, dummy=True)
> File
> "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/backends/backend_pgf.py",
> line 409, in __init__
> self.latexManager = LatexManagerFactory.get_latex_manager()
> File
> "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/backends/backend_pgf.py",
> line 223, in get_latex_manager
> new_inst = LatexManager()
> File
> "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/backends/backend_pgf.py",
> line 305, in __init__
> cwd=self.tmpdir)
> File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 711, in __init__
> errread, errwrite)
> File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 1308, in _execute_child
> raise child_exception
> OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
>
Figured it out. problem is xelatex was not installed. Too bad the traceback
can't be more clear on this.
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