Fix for Matplotlib text output for inclusion in LaTeX documents

matplotlib-latex.py

import matplotlib

# http://bkanuka.com/articles/native-latex-plots/
def figsize(scale):
    fig_width_pt = 240.0
    inches_per_pt = 1.0/72.27
    golden_mean = (numpy.sqrt(5.0)-1.0)/2.0
    fig_width = fig_width_pt*inches_per_pt*scale
    fig_height = fig_width*golden_mean
    fig_size = [fig_width,fig_height]
    return fig_size

pgf_with_latex = {
    "pgf.texsystem": "pdflatex",
    "text.usetex": True,
    "font.family": "serif",
    "font.serif": [],
    "font.sans-serif": [],
    "font.monospace": [],
    "axes.labelsize": 12,
    "font.size": 12,
    "legend.fontsize": 12,
    "xtick.labelsize": 12,
    "ytick.labelsize": 12,
    "figure.figsize": figsize(0.9),
    "pgf.preamble": [
        r"\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}",
        r"\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}",
    ]
}
matplotlib.rcParams.update(pgf_with_latex)