Can´t Save Matplotlib Figure To .eps In Windows While Using Text.usetex : True

When I run the following code: http://dpaste.com/0210P09 everything works fine on my Linux distro. However, in Windows7 (64bit) I cannot successfully save it in eps or svg. This is

Solution 1:

There are two problems here. The first and minor one is that in

C:\Users\12151056\AppData\Local\Continuum\Anaconda3\lib\site-package\matplotlib\backends\backend_ps.py", line 1556

you should change

fh.read()

to

fh.read().decode()

This is a Python 2/3 bug, that occurs while handling the fact that something with Ghostscript went wrong.

The main problem is that matplotlib cannot find Ghostscript because it is not in the path environmental variable. You can check that by opening a command prompt and trying the command gswin32c or gs. If these commands are not found you have to add the path of these Ghostscript executables to the path environmental variable. In my case it was:

C:\Program Files (x86)\gs\gs8.54\bin

but it depends on your installation path.