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Description
Bug report
Bug summary
What the title says
Code for reproduction
rcParams["ps.usedistiller"] = "xpdf"; plot(); savefig("/tmp/test.ps")Actual outcome
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File ".../matplotlib/backends/backend_ps.py", line 1247, in xpdf_distill
cbook._check_and_log_subprocess(
File ".../matplotlib/cbook/__init__.py", line 2129, in _check_and_log_subprocess
raise RuntimeError(
RuntimeError: The command
ps2pdf '-dAutoFilterColorImages#false' '-dAutoFilterGrayImages#false' '-dAutoRotatePages#false' '-sGrayImageFilter#FlateEncode' '-sColorImageFilter#FlateEncode' '-sPAPERSIZE#letter' /tmp/tmpddvwd66_/tmp.ps /tmp/tmpddvwd66_/tmp.ps.pdf
failed and generated the following output:
and the following error:
Unrecoverable error: typecheck in .putdeviceprops
Expected outcome
Success.
Matplotlib version
- Operating system: arch linux / fedora
- Matplotlib version: master, but present as far back as mpl3.0 at least.
- Matplotlib backend (
print(matplotlib.get_backend())): ps - Python version: 38
- Jupyter version (if applicable): no
- Other libraries: ghostscript 9.50 on arch; 9.27 on fedora