Re: [Matplotlib-users] savefig as pdf not generating vector graphics?

2009-06-28 Thread Jouni K . Seppänen
per freem perfr...@gmail.com writes: i am using matplotlib 0.98.5.2 on Mac OS X. i am plotting a histogram and then saving it as .pdf. The x and y labels use some symbols from latex, and i have useTex set to true in my rcParams. Do you really need usetex? Matplotlib's usual mathtext engine is

Re: [Matplotlib-users] savefig as pdf not generating vector graphics?

2009-06-28 Thread Jouni K . Seppänen
per freem perfr...@gmail.com writes: you're right, i don't need to use usetex -- i removed it, but the problem still persists. here is the pdf that it generates (code below). any idea what is happening here? thanks very much for your help. The file you sent was not generated by the pdf

Re: [Matplotlib-users] savefig as pdf not generating vector graphics?

2009-06-28 Thread Michiel de Hoon
--- On Sun, 6/28/09, Jouni K. Seppänen j...@iki.fi wrote: The file you sent was not generated by the pdf backend but by Mac OS X 10.5.6 Quartz PDFContext, which probably means that the OS X backend saves pdf files using the OS X machinery and not the pdf backend. Indeed the formulas look like

[Matplotlib-users] savefig as pdf not generating vector graphics?

2009-06-27 Thread per freem
hi all, i am using matplotlib 0.98.5.2 on Mac OS X. i am plotting a histogram and then saving it as .pdf. The x and y labels use some symbols from latex, and i have useTex set to true in my rcParams. The code is: import matplotlib.pyplot as plt my_fig = plt.figure(figsize=(5,5)), dpi=100)