Problems generating postscript!

Hi

I am having reccurrent problem generating postscript files using savefig.

I am basically generating a figure with lots of small thumbnail images
(loaded with mpl pcolormesh and contour) and some overimposed text.

When I do:
savefig("myfig.eps")

it takes quite a while, and makes rather big figures (> 20 Mb). But then
I cannot load that eps file anymore with any of the software I have
tried (okular, display, gimp...). The file seems corrupted and when I
e.g. try with display it tells me:

   Error: /limitcheck in --def--
   Operand stack:
      p1c_37d --nostringval--
   Execution stack:
      %interp_exit .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval--
--nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval--
  --nostringval-- false 1 %stopped_push 1878 1 3
%oparray_pop 1877 1 3 %oparray_pop --nostringval-- 1861 1
  3 %oparray_pop 1755 1 3 %oparray_pop --nostringval--
%errorexec_pop .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval--
--nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval--
   Dictionary stack:
     --dict:1172/3371(ro)(G)-- --dict:0/20(G)--
--dict:75/200(L)-- --dict:65534/65534(L)--
   Current allocation mode is local
   Last OS error: 2
   Current file position is 14073283
   GPL Ghostscript 8.64: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1

Any help with this please!?

THANKS!

Eric

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#########################################################
# Some info on my config here
#########################################################
# OS is OpenSuse 11.2 with KDE, 64b laptop

matplotlib version 0.99.1.1
verbose.level helpful
interactive is False
units is False
platform is linux2
backend WXAgg version 2.8.10.1
Python 2.6.2 (r262:71600, Oct 24 2009, 03:15:21)
IPython 0.10 -- An enhanced Interactive Python.

# And in my matplotlibrc:
usetex False
ps.papersize : A4
ps.useafm : False
ps.usedistiller : None
ps.distiller.res : 120 # dpi
ps.fonttype : 3