I am having trouble executing the example for typesetting labels with latex from http://matplotlib.org/users/usetex.html. Copying the standard example, tex_demo.py, to a file and executing it gives the following output:
Traceback (most recent call last): File "scratch.py", line 21, in <module> plt.savefig('tex_demo') File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/matplotlib/pyplot.py", line 561, in savefig return fig.savefig(*args, **kwargs) File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/matplotlib/figure.py", line 1421, in savefig self.canvas.print_figure(*args, **kwargs) File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/matplotlib/backend_bases.py", line 2220, in print_figure **kwargs) File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/matplotlib/backends/backend_agg.py", line 505, in print_png FigureCanvasAgg.draw(self) File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/matplotlib/backends/backend_agg.py", line 451, in draw self.figure.draw(self.renderer) File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/matplotlib/artist.py", line 55, in draw_wrapper draw(artist, renderer, *args, **kwargs) File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/matplotlib/figure.py", line 1034, in draw func(*args) File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/matplotlib/artist.py", line 55, in draw_wrapper draw(artist, renderer, *args, **kwargs) File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/matplotlib/axes.py", line 2086, in draw a.draw(renderer) File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/matplotlib/artist.py", line 55, in draw_wrapper draw(artist, renderer, *args, **kwargs) File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/matplotlib/axis.py", line 1105, in draw self.label.draw(renderer) File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/matplotlib/artist.py", line 55, in draw_wrapper draw(artist, renderer, *args, **kwargs) File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/matplotlib/text.py", line 594, in draw self._fontproperties, angle, mtext=self) File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/matplotlib/backends/backend_agg.py", line 241, in draw_tex self._renderer.draw_text_image(Z, x, y, angle, gc) OverflowError: cannot convert float infinity to integer My system is Linux mwlaptop 3.16.0-24-generic #32-Ubuntu SMP Tue Oct 28 13:07:32 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux My matplotlib version is 1.3.1, and I am using standard packages from my Ubuntu 14.10 distribution. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users