Thread: [Matplotlib-users] can any windows 0.91.2 user reproduce this bug?

Hello windows users -

Can anybody using mpl 0.91.2 on windows reproduce this bug:

from pylab import *
plot([1,2,3])
xlabel(r'$\chi$')
savefig('c:/temp/test.eps')

This should give an eps file that when viewed does not show the letter chi
along the x-axis (that's the bug).

We have been discussing this problem, and I think it is a bug in the windows
distribution.
(It worked on all the previous mpl versions fine, just when upgrading from
0.90.1 the problem arose).

If you can, please email me your eps file: ma...@gm...

Thanks for your help, Mark

Thanks to Fred, Chris, and JV for reproducing this bug.
We all get the same eps file, that doesn't show the greek symbols produced
with mathtext.
And we all do get correct results on the screen (using Tk) and in pdf and
png files.
It seems not to work on windows, while it used to work on versions
0.90.1and earlier.
Sorry for the bad news.
Anybody know how to fix this?

Thanks, Mark

On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 5:02 PM, Mark Bakker <ma...@gm...> wrote:

> Hello windows users -
>
> Can anybody using mpl 0.91.2 on windows reproduce this bug:
>
> from pylab import *
> plot([1,2,3])
> xlabel(r'$\chi$')
> savefig('c:/temp/test.eps')
>
> This should give an eps file that when viewed does not show the letter chi
> along the x-axis (that's the bug).
>
> We have been discussing this problem, and I think it is a bug in the
> windows distribution.
> (It worked on all the previous mpl versions fine, just when upgrading from
> 0.90.1 the problem arose).
>
> If you can, please email me your eps file: ma...@gm...
>
> Thanks for your help, Mark
>

Mark Bakker wrote:
> Thanks to Fred, Chris, and JV for reproducing this bug.
> We all get the same eps file, that doesn't show the greek symbols 
> produced with mathtext.
> And we all do get correct results on the screen (using Tk) and in pdf 
> and png files.
I loaded the *eps* file in Adobe Photoshop and the *chi* letter **was** 
displayed along the x-axis. -- jv
> It seems not to work on windows, while it used to work on versions 
> 0.90.1 and earlier.
> Sorry for the bad news.
> Anybody know how to fix this?
>
> Thanks, Mark
>
> On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 5:02 PM, Mark Bakker <ma...@gm... 
> <mailto:ma...@gm...>> wrote:
>
>     Hello windows users -
>
>     Can anybody using mpl 0.91.2 on windows reproduce this bug:
>
>     from pylab import *
>     plot([1,2,3])
>     xlabel(r'$\chi$')
>     savefig('c:/temp/test.eps')
>
>     This should give an eps file that when viewed does not show the
>     letter chi along the x-axis (that's the bug).
>
>     We have been discussing this problem, and I think it is a bug in
>     the windows distribution.
>     (It worked on all the previous mpl versions fine, just when
>     upgrading from 0.90.1 the problem arose).
>
>     If you can, please email me your eps file: ma...@gm...
>     <mailto:ma...@gm...>
>
>     Thanks for your help, Mark
>
>
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On Tue, 25 Mar 2008, Jim Vickroy apparently wrote:
> I loaded the eps file in Adobe Photoshop and the chi 
> letter **was** displayed along the x-axis. -- jv 

Sounds like perhaps the symbol is not embedded in the EPS file.

Cheers,
Alan Isaac

Well, that is odd.
The *chi* letter doesn't show up with GSView, or Preview on the Mac.
What's going on?
Mark

On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 3:19 PM, Jim Vickroy <Jim...@no...> wrote:

>  Mark Bakker wrote:
>
> Thanks to Fred, Chris, and JV for reproducing this bug.
> We all get the same eps file, that doesn't show the greek symbols produced
> with mathtext.
> And we all do get correct results on the screen (using Tk) and in pdf and
> png files.
>
> I loaded the *eps* file in Adobe Photoshop and the *chi* letter **was**
> displayed along the x-axis. -- jv
>
> It seems not to work on windows, while it used to work on versions 0.90.1and earlier.
> Sorry for the bad news.
> Anybody know how to fix this?
>
> Thanks, Mark
>
> On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 5:02 PM, Mark Bakker <ma...@gm...> wrote:
>
> > Hello windows users -
> >
> > Can anybody using mpl 0.91.2 on windows reproduce this bug:
> >
> > from pylab import *
> > plot([1,2,3])
> > xlabel(r'$\chi$')
> > savefig('c:/temp/test.eps')
> >
> > This should give an eps file that when viewed does not show the letter
> > chi along the x-axis (that's the bug).
> >
> > We have been discussing this problem, and I think it is a bug in the
> > windows distribution.
> > (It worked on all the previous mpl versions fine, just when upgrading
> > from 0.90.1 the problem arose).
> >
> > If you can, please email me your eps file: ma...@gm...
> >
> > Thanks for your help, Mark
> >
>
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