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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Saving polar plots with MiKTeX on Windows fails for some file formats","articleBody":"**Bug summary**\r\n\r\nSaving matplotlib polar plots on Windows 7 and Windows 10, with MiKTex 2.9.7.000, fails for some formats (e.g., pdf, svg) and works for others (e.g., png, jpg)\r\n\r\n**Code for reproduction**\r\n\r\n\r\n```python\r\nimport matplotlib.pyplot as plt\r\nimport matplotlib as mpl\r\nmpl.rcParams['text.usetex'] = True\r\n\r\nplt.figure()\r\nax = plt.subplot(111, polar=True)\r\n\r\n\r\nplt.savefig('foo.png')  # Works\r\nplt.savefig('foo.jpg')  # Works\r\nplt.savefig('foo.tif')  # Works\r\n# plt.savefig('foo.pdf')  # Fails\r\n# plt.savefig('foo.svg')  # Fails\r\nplt.show()\r\n```\r\n\r\n**Actual outcome**\r\n\r\n\"Error saving .... \" window pops up with error code b'tcss1000' for pdf, and b'tcss3583' for svg.  (The numbers change)\r\n\r\n\r\n**Matplotlib version**\r\n\u003c!--Please specify your platform and versions of the relevant libraries you are using:--\u003e\r\n  * Operating system:  Windows 7 \u0026 10 \r\n  * Matplotlib version: 2.2.2  or 3.0.3\r\n  * Matplotlib backend (`print(matplotlib.get_backend())`): Qt5Agg\r\n  * Python version: 3.6\r\n  * Jupyter version (if applicable): N/A\r\n  * Other libraries:  N/A\r\n\r\nInstalled via Anaconda3\r\n\r\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/urogers","@type":"Person","name":"urogers"},"datePublished":"2019-05-06T21:37:30.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":7},"url":"https://github.com/14146/matplotlib/issues/14146"}