Re: [Matplotlib-users] Latex, Labels and PDF

2007-07-26 Thread Jouni K . Seppänen
John T Whelan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Shouldn't rsome label text ($\mu V$) work? It doesn't work in any released version, but it seems that Michael Droettboom's recent mathtext improvements include this (and much more). -- Jouni K. Seppänen http://www.iki.fi/jks

Re: [Matplotlib-users] pdf saving on OS X

2007-07-26 Thread Brian Blais
On Jul 26, 2007, at Jul 26:4:49 PM, Jouni K. Seppänen wrote: Brian Blais [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: and it works with pylab. But, if I use matplotlib.Figure directly in an app, and then call: myfig.savefig('blah.pdf') it saves it as 'blah.pdf.jpg', a jpeg file. Sounds like you are using

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Matplotlib for 3D Plots

2007-07-26 Thread Eric Firing
3D plotting in mpl should be considered, at best, to be experimental and unsupported. Some interesting and fairly extensive capabilities were added but have not been consistently maintained. Mpl is at heart 2D. Eric Lorenzo Isella wrote: Dear All, I would like to try out matplotlib for

[Matplotlib-users] Compiling matplotlib for RHEL 4 x86_64 machine

2007-07-26 Thread Berit Hinnemann
Hi, I am installing matplotlib on a RedHat x86_64 machine, running Python 2.3.4. I could not find any binary for it on sourceforge and thus I have to compile it. Has somebody tried this and are there some pitfalls? Also, what does the setup utility peak do? Has anybody gotten it to work with

[Matplotlib-users] pdf saving on OS X

2007-07-26 Thread Brian Blais
Hello I am having trouble saving a figure to pdf on Mac OS X (matplotlib version 0.90.1). I applied the patch for pylab, here: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ msg00940.html and it works with pylab. But, if I use matplotlib.Figure directly in an app, and then call:

[Matplotlib-users] Saving Images as .pdf files

2007-07-26 Thread Jonathan Makem
Hi, I'm havind difficulty plotting saving pylab images in pdf format. At the moment, they are saved as .png files by default using: savefig('name',dpi=300) However, if I try: savefig('name.pdf') The program crashes. Is there anyway of solving this problem? Regards,

[Matplotlib-users] Crashing with a St8bad_cast

2007-07-26 Thread Steve Lianoglou
Hi all, I just upgraded to the latest svn for matlotlib and she's blowing up on me with this error: terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::bad_cast' what(): St8bad_cast Abort trap It happens when I fire up ipython w/ -pylab ... (and some other non specified code in one of

Re: [Matplotlib-users] pdf saving on OS X

2007-07-26 Thread Jouni K . Seppänen
Brian Blais [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: and it works with pylab. But, if I use matplotlib.Figure directly in an app, and then call: myfig.savefig('blah.pdf') it saves it as 'blah.pdf.jpg', a jpeg file. Sounds like you are using a backend other than the pdf one. Can you write up a complete