I believe the bug actually is in matplotlib, and recent ghostscript versions
fail only because they have become stricter over time. The TTF-to-Postscript
font conversion library in matplotlib (ttconv) was hard-coded to use the
"Standard" Postscript encoding (which defines the set of glyphs avai
I can't seem to reproduce this on a 32-bit RHEL4 machine with:
python-2.5.4
matplotlib-0.99.1.2
GNU ghostscript 7.07
and viewed with any of:
Adobe Reader 8.1.7
xpdf 3.00
ggv 2.8.0
(sorry no evince on RHEL4)
What versions of these tools are you running? Do you have any
customizations in your m
I'm running v0.99.1.2 on Debian Linux, 32 bit Intel. A colorbar on
the right with negative labels produces postscript-eps output which
displays ok with gv or evince. But when conversion of the ps/eps file
to pdf is made, the negative labels get replaced by dashes when the
pdf is viewed by xpdf o
