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Hello all,
I installed the latest matplot lib last night on my powerbook running 
Mac OS 10.4. Overall the installation went well, but there were a 
few hitches. I was able to solve some of the simple problems, but 
other remain. I wanted to document my experience and also see if 
anyone has solutions to the other problems.
Here is what I did:
1. Latest Numeric
2. Bob Ippolito's python 2.4.1 (with the Tiger fix)
3. IPython 0.7.0rc1
4. wxPython 2.6.1.0 unicode binary from the wxpython site
5. libpng and freetype from I-Installer
6. CVS matplotlib as of late 12/29/05
I then did
cd matplotlib
python setup.py build
sudo python setup.py install
I then copied the default matplotlib into the ~/.matplotlib directory 
and changed the backend.
BACKEND ISSUES
Out of the box, the WX and TkAgg and CocoaAgg backends worked. I did 
have problems with WXAgg (which I have solved) and with PS (which I 
have not solved).
WXAgg:
When the WXAgg backend was used I got an exception (MemoryError) when 
I plotted things. I traced it back to the wxconfig command not being 
in my PATH variable.
When I moved wxconfig from /usr/local/lib/wxPython-unicode-2.6.1.0/ 
bin to /usr/local/bin and rebuilt everything, the WXAgg backend 
worked fine.
While the wxconfig PATH issue is documented in the source code 
(setupext.py I think) I didn't see anything in the INSTALL file about 
it. A brief note should be added to the INSTALL file.
PS:
When the PS backend is used, the .ps and .eps files produced are 
somewhat problematic. Here is what I observed:
- PS backend, savefig("test.ps")
	The .ps file cannot be opened by preview: "Couldn't convert the 
PostScript file to a PDF file."
	But running ps2pdf on it produced a pdf file.
- PS backend, savefig("test.eps")
	This does produce a nice eps file that preview can read.
I get the same behavior when using the WXAgg backend and trying to 
save the figure as a .ps or .eps file.
I know it is a minor issue, but Is there a way to get a raw .ps file 
that Preview can display?
Thanks in advance
Brian