[Pythonmac-SIG] matplotlib and postscript output

[Samuel M. Smith]

I had postscript problems on matplotlib 0.83.2 with the fonts. If my  
plot had text in it, the ps file wouldn't convert to pdf. It had an  
error.

Robert Kern on the matplotlib-users mailing list had a work around.  
That is use tex fonts.

This worked for me. I installed the latest version of texshop http:// 
www.uoregon.edu/~koch/texshop/ and
then entered this command before plotting

  rc('text', usetex=True)

and the resulting eps files converted to pdf just fine.