Re: [Matplotlib-users] Problem with using font sizes < 10 with usetex (MPL 0.9.0): scrambled text

On Monday 14 May 2007 10:00:22 am Whyking wrote:
> On 5/14/07, Darren Dale <dd...@co...> wrote:
> > On Monday 14 May 2007 9:33:06 am Whyking wrote:
> > > Hi List,
> > >
> > > my rendered latex fonts do not get displayed correctly when I use font
> > > sizes smaller than 10. I use linux with the following latex version:
> > > pdfeTeX 3.141592-1.30.5-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.5)
> > >
> > > When integrating the eps in my latex script the font inside the plots
> > > consists just of small vertical lines instead of the text. When I use a
> > > font size larger or equal than 10 the text gets displayed correctly.
> > > The problem seems to be font-family independent.
> > >
> > > Where could be the problem? Matplotlib, latex? Does someone has the
> > > same problem?
> >
> > No problems here. I'm using the same version of latex that you are. Fonts
> > render correctly with both the ghostscript (default) and xpdf distiller
> > options.
> >
> > Darren
>
> I just tried it with xpdf distiller (didn't know about that option before)
> and it works fine! So ghostscript seems to be the problem. I use
> ghostscript-esp 8.15.4, maybe there is some incompatibility there?

That could be, I'm using GPL ghostscript 8.54.