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I found a bug in the Axes3D code for making 3D plots. I created a simple 
patch to fix it. I then submitted a bug to the tracker more than a week 
ago. However, it seems to have gone unnoticed, so I am sending this 
information to the mailing list, which seems to be more active than the 
bug tracker.
To view the bug, go here:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1798196&group_id=80706&atid=560720
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Darren Dale <dd...@co...> writes:
> I tried the following, with the latest svn checkout and usetex=True:
> plot([1,2])
> savefig('test.pdf')
> and I get an error, the tail end is:
[...]
> --> 503 fh = open(fontinfo.afmfile, 'rb')
> IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: ''
Could you update from svn, set verbose.level to debug, run your example
again, and email me the output? Also, which TeX distribution do you
have?
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Jouni K. Seppänen
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Hi Jouni,
On Thursday 13 September 2007 02:38:25 am Jouni K. Sepp=E4nen wrote:
> The usetex support in pdf is now a little better, so I am enabling it
> now. At least it is more entertaining than NotImplementedError...
>
> I have fixed some of the biggest problems (the broken font embedding
> causing crashes of Preview.app, and the lack of virtual font support).
> It still makes some assumptions about the TeX distribution: you need
> kpsewhich and pdftex.map, so on TeX Live or (I presume) teTeX you are
> fine, but I have no idea about Windows.
>
> Transformations of Type-1 fonts are not implemented, so if you try to
> use $\alpha$ with Times, TeX typesets an alpha from Symbol and slants
> it, but you get the non-slanted version. Fixing this (and adding
> subsetting support) probably requires a complete Type-1 parser.
>
> There is support for baseline alignment, but it is based on finding the
> baseline of the lowest character, so subscripts will throw it off. A
> good solution will require some TeX magic.
>
> Reports of bugs (or successes) are welcome.
I tried the following, with the latest svn checkout and usetex=3DTrue:
plot([1,2])
savefig('test.pdf')
and I get an error, the tail end is:
/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/matplotlib/backends/backend_pdf.py in=20
writeFonts(self)
 468 elif filename.endswith('.pfb') or=20
filename.endswith('.pfa'):
 469 # a Type 1 font; limited support for now
=2D-> 470 fontdictObject =3D self.embedType1(filename,=20
self.fontInfo[Fx])
 471 else:
 472 realpath, stat_key =3D get_realpath_and_stat(filena=
me)
/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/matplotlib/backends/backend_pdf.py in=20
embedType1(self, filename, fontinfo)
 501 fh.close()
 502
=2D-> 503 fh =3D open(fontinfo.afmfile, 'rb')
 504 matplotlib.verbose.report(
 505 'Reading metrics from ' + fontinfo.afmfile, 'debug')
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: ''
Darren