IPython Notebook locale error

After installing the latest Mac OSX 64-bit Anaconda Python distribution, I keep getting a ValueError when trying to start the IPython Notebook. Starting ipython works fine: 3-millerc-~:ipython Python 2.7.3 |Anaconda 1.4.0 (x86_64)| (default, Feb 25 2013, 18:45:56) Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. IPython 0.13.1 — An enhanced Interactive Python. ? -> Introduction … Read more

Matplotlib and Ipython-notebook: Displaying exactly the figure that will be saved

I am using ipython-notebook a lot at the moment for numerical analysis and plotting of data. In the process of preparing publication quality plots there is a lot of tweaking to get the layout just right, however I can’t get ipython/matplotlib to show me what I will be saving in the browser. Making the process more painful than it should be because I have to keep opening the new output file to check it.