# How to output Type 1 fonts and greek letters on plot labels using PyPlot?

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**Category:** Visualization\
**Created:** [July 26, 2017, 8:34pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-output-type-1-fonts-and-greek-letters-on-plot-labels-using-pyplot/5077 "2017-07-26T20:34:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![josimar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cab0a1/32.png) [@josimar](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/josimar)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2017, 8:34pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-output-type-1-fonts-and-greek-letters-on-plot-labels-using-pyplot/5077/1 "2017-07-26T20:34:59Z")

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Hi all,

I am getting an error when I am try to plot latex greek letters on the label of a plot using PyPlot.

Here is what I am doing:

`ylabel(L" Ω=Vθ/D_c ")`

at the beginning of my script I am using the following option:

`PyPlot.matplotlib[:rc]("text", usetex=true) # allow tex rendering`

This is because I want .eps figures with Type 1 font. If I remove it I get by default Type 3 fonts.

Note that if I comment out the tex rendering option I do not get the error anymore.

How to plot greek letters on the label and export the figure in .eps using Type 1 fonts ?

I am using the Atom utility.

thank you  
Josimar

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**Author:** ![stevengj](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/stevengj/32/71_2.png) [@stevengj](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/stevengj)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2017, 10:32pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-output-type-1-fonts-and-greek-letters-on-plot-labels-using-pyplot/5077/2 "2017-07-26T22:32:29Z")

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If you use a LaTeX string, you need to use LaTeX for Greek letters too. `L"\Omega"` etc.