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First, since you said you used pkg-config I would like to know what
libfreetype the ft2font.so lib is actually linked against.  Can you
issue an otool -L ft2font.so in the matplotlib's directory?  This will
tell you what libs are used.

I think most important is the compiler used, but since you are on 10.4
apparently, I don't know what the recent compiler for you is.  Is it
gcc-4.0?  (It seems to be.)  Are there other gcc's around which could
have been used for the libfreetype2, or for Python itself?  Can you
issue in a clean shell gcc --version, and it seems you used c++ as the
command for .cpp sources, right, so can you issue c++ --version too?

And what were your steps to get it build from the weird errors you
posted before (I didn't get a clue from them).

I don't know if I can help you but at least I can try to, right ....

Friedrich

2010/6/25 Ranjit Chacko <rjc...@gm...>:
> I finally somehow managed to get matplotlib to compile but now when I try to
> import matplotlib.pyplot I get the following error:
>
> ImportError:
> dlopen(/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/matplotlib/ft2font.so,
> 2): Symbol not found: _FT_Attach_File
>   Referenced from:
> /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/matplotlib/ft2font.so
>   Expected in: dynamic lookup

On 06/27/2010 08:06 AM, Eliss Parke wrote:
> I'm creating charts in matplotlib and saving them using
> savefig('chart.eps'). How can I make the labels actually be text rather
> than paths, which seems to be the default? (when I open the .eps files
> in Illustrator, I can't edit them as text)

When you say "labels", are you referring to the tick labels?

If so, near the top of your script, try:

import matplotlib
matplotlib.rcParams['axes.unicode_minus'] = False

Otherwise all tick labels are treated as unicode by default, and unicode 
is rendered in the ps backend as a sequence of glyphs rather than as a 
single text string.

You might also consider using matplotlib to write pdf files instead of 
ps.  The eps format is older and more limited in its capabilities than 
pdf.  You can always convert pdf to eps as a last step, if eps is what 
you ultimately need.  I've never used Illustrator, but I presume it can 
happily import pdf and export eps.

Eric

>
> I'm using the latest matplotlib and python on Windows XP.
>
> Thanks
> Eliss
>
>
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I'm creating charts in matplotlib and saving them using
savefig('chart.eps'). How can I make the labels actually be text rather than
paths, which seems to be the default? (when I open the .eps files in
Illustrator, I can't edit them as text)

I'm using the latest matplotlib and python on Windows XP.

Thanks
Eliss

Matplotlib is used as part of the Sage project, where we aim to run test-suites 
that are part of upstream packages where possible. Someone suggested it would be 
good if we did that for Matplotlib, which we currently do not do. However, on 
reading the contents of the source directory (README.txt, INSTALL etc) I could 
not find any reference to how to test Matplotlib.

Is there such a test suite, and if so how does one invoke it?

Dave