diff --git a/bob/devtools/data/matplotlibrc b/bob/devtools/data/matplotlibrc
index ed5097572ae68680d0c9afdf510968e1c3d175d4..d227970dbaa8dad716f062d63b50f4a2f3e732c3 100644
--- a/bob/devtools/data/matplotlibrc
+++ b/bob/devtools/data/matplotlibrc
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 backend      : agg
+text.usetex  : false