cannot print out .eps figures

Hi,

I created an eps figure file with matplotlib. I can look at it via mac preview, but when I inserted it into a word document and printed it out, I got nothing except for the eps file information. So what's the problem? Here are all the packages I used in the python code. Does any of them impact the creation of the eps file? Thanks.

import numpy as np
import sys
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from mpl_toolkits.basemap import Basemap
from get_fbin import get_fbin
from matplotlib import mathtext
from matplotlib import rc
from matplotlib.font_manager import FontProperties
rc('font',**{'family':'sans-serif','sans-serif':['Helvetica']})
rc('text', usetex=True)

and I saved the code in this way:

fig.savefig('pfg1.eps')

I have personally have had problems with eps files in MS PowerPoint,
even from matplotlib. I don't know if it was the files or PowerPoint.
Try outputting to PDF format and see if that works better.

Ben Root

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On Tuesday, March 1, 2011, Zhaoru Zhang <zhaoruzhang@...287...> wrote:

Hi,

I created an eps figure file with matplotlib. I can look at it via mac preview, but when I inserted it into a word document and printed it out, I got nothing except for the eps file information. So what's the problem? Here are all the packages I used in the python code. Does any of them impact the creation of the eps file? Thanks.

import numpy as np
import sys
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from mpl_toolkits.basemap import Basemap
from get_fbin import get_fbin
from matplotlib import mathtext
from matplotlib import rc
from matplotlib.font_manager import FontProperties
rc('font',**{'family':'sans-serif','sans-serif':['Helvetica']})
rc('text', usetex=True)

and I saved the code in this way:

fig.savefig('pfg1.eps')

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Hi,

have you tried to print the EPS without putting it into a DOC? Is
there a specific reason for why you don't use an PNG for that task?
Can Word print EPS at all?

Best,
Daniel

2011/3/1 Zhaoru Zhang <zhaoruzhang@...287...>:

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Hi,

I created an eps figure file with matplotlib. I can look at it via mac preview, but when I inserted it into a word document and printed it out, I got nothing except for the eps file information. So what's the problem? Here are all the packages I used in the python code. Does any of them impact the creation of the eps file? Thanks.

import numpy as np
import sys
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from mpl_toolkits.basemap import Basemap
from get_fbin import get_fbin
from matplotlib import mathtext
from matplotlib import rc
from matplotlib.font_manager import FontProperties
rc('font',**{'family':'sans-serif','sans-serif':['Helvetica']})
rc('text', usetex=True)

and I saved the code in this way:

fig.savefig('pfg1.eps')