--- On Sun, 6/28/09, Jouni K. Seppänen 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 bitma
Awesome, thanks. That works perfectly.
Chris
On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 12:16 AM, Jae-Joon Lee wrote:
> sorry.
> As guillaume has mentioned, you need to install mpl from svn.
>
> Here is some workaround you can try. I guess it would work with 0.98.5.3.
> Basically, you create a separate axes for a l
I just wanted to add: if i simply set the font to Arial, using
rc('font',**{'family':'sans-serif','sans-serif':['Arial']})
then it works. But the same call with Helvetica still defaults to that
Bitstream/default font of matplotlib. any idea why this might be? could
matplotlib be confusing helveti
hi,
i am trying to use the Helvetica font on matplotlib. i am using mac os x (so
i definitely have helvetica installed) with version 0.98.5.2 of matplotlib.
my code is:
from scipy import *
import matplotlib
matplotlib.use('PDF')
from matplotlib import rc
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
rc('font',
per freem 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 backend but by "Mac
per freem 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 pretty
good and
