It turns out (thanks to Darren for the debug info) that AFM files do not
exist for all fonts in all current TeX distributions, so I have modified
the pdf backend to not use them. This loses some information that is
required by the pdf spec (such as the x-height and stem widths of the
embedded font)
Leon Barrett wrote:
> I found a bug in the Axes3D code for making 3D plots. I created a simple
> patch to fix it. I then submitted a bug to the tracker more than a week
> ago. However, it seems to have gone unnoticed, so I am sending this
> information to the mailing list, which seems to be more
