diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index d0ffd1ec..d18ac3ab 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/tbreloff/Plots.jl.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/tbreloff/Plots.jl)
 [![Plots](http://pkg.julialang.org/badges/Plots_0.3.svg)](http://pkg.julialang.org/?pkg=Plots&ver=0.3)
 [![Plots](http://pkg.julialang.org/badges/Plots_0.4.svg)](http://pkg.julialang.org/?pkg=Plots&ver=0.4)
-[![Coverage Status](https://coveralls.io/repos/tbreloff/Plots.jl/badge.svg?branch=master)](https://coveralls.io/r/tbreloff/Plots.jl?branch=master)
+<!-- [![Coverage Status](https://coveralls.io/repos/tbreloff/Plots.jl/badge.svg?branch=master)](https://coveralls.io/r/tbreloff/Plots.jl?branch=master) -->
 [![codecov.io](http://codecov.io/github/tbreloff/Plots.jl/coverage.svg?branch=master)](http://codecov.io/github/tbreloff/Plots.jl?branch=master)
 
 #### Author: Thomas Breloff (@tbreloff)
diff --git a/docs/readme_template.md b/docs/readme_template.md
index c41f1c7a..ce188f9f 100644
--- a/docs/readme_template.md
+++ b/docs/readme_template.md
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/tbreloff/Plots.jl.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/tbreloff/Plots.jl)
 [![Plots](http://pkg.julialang.org/badges/Plots_0.3.svg)](http://pkg.julialang.org/?pkg=Plots&ver=0.3)
 [![Plots](http://pkg.julialang.org/badges/Plots_0.4.svg)](http://pkg.julialang.org/?pkg=Plots&ver=0.4)
-[![Coverage Status](https://coveralls.io/repos/tbreloff/Plots.jl/badge.svg?branch=master)](https://coveralls.io/r/tbreloff/Plots.jl?branch=master)
+<!-- [![Coverage Status](https://coveralls.io/repos/tbreloff/Plots.jl/badge.svg?branch=master)](https://coveralls.io/r/tbreloff/Plots.jl?branch=master) -->
 [![codecov.io](http://codecov.io/github/tbreloff/Plots.jl/coverage.svg?branch=master)](http://codecov.io/github/tbreloff/Plots.jl?branch=master)
 
 #### Author: Thomas Breloff (@tbreloff)
diff --git a/img/supported/Plots.supportGraphArgs.png b/img/supported/Plots.supportGraphArgs.png
index 10b70ae5..a19de0ca 100644
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diff --git a/img/supported/Plots.supportGraphAxes.png b/img/supported/Plots.supportGraphAxes.png
index e4e37436..0ef203b5 100644
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diff --git a/img/supported/Plots.supportGraphMarkers.png b/img/supported/Plots.supportGraphMarkers.png
index 1e4ee406..33a965e0 100644
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diff --git a/img/supported/Plots.supportGraphScales.png b/img/supported/Plots.supportGraphScales.png
index 67067423..40b305ec 100644
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diff --git a/img/supported/Plots.supportGraphStyles.png b/img/supported/Plots.supportGraphStyles.png
index acc3784b..b93aaa40 100644
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diff --git a/img/supported/Plots.supportGraphTypes.png b/img/supported/Plots.supportGraphTypes.png
index dbeb711d..39ddf77a 100644
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diff --git a/src/backends/pyplot.jl b/src/backends/pyplot.jl
index 01308117..a8fb6b98 100644
--- a/src/backends/pyplot.jl
+++ b/src/backends/pyplot.jl
@@ -25,7 +25,15 @@ function getPyPlotLineStyle(linetype::Symbol, linestyle::Symbol)
 end
 
 function getPyPlotMarker(marker::Shape)
-  marker.vertices
+  n = length(marker.vertices)
+  mat = zeros(n+1,2)
+  for (i,vert) in enumerate(marker.vertices)
+    mat[i,1] = vert[1]
+    mat[i,2] = vert[2]
+  end
+  mat[n+1,:] = mat[1,:]
+  pypath.pymember("Path")(mat)
+  # marker.vertices
 end
 
 # get the marker shape
@@ -42,7 +50,7 @@ function getPyPlotMarker(marker::Symbol)
   marker == :pentagon && return "p"
   marker == :hexagon && return "h"
   marker == :octagon && return "8"
-  haskey(_shapes, marker) && return _shapes[marker].vertices
+  haskey(_shapes, marker) && return getPyPlotMarker(_shapes[marker])
 
   warn("Unknown marker $marker")
   return "o"
@@ -218,6 +226,7 @@ function plot!(pkg::PyPlotPackage, plt::Plot; kw...)
 
     extraargs[:linestyle] = getPyPlotLineStyle(lt, d[:linestyle])
     extraargs[:marker] = getPyPlotMarker(d[:markershape])
+    dump(extraargs[:marker])
 
     if lt == :scatter
       extraargs[:s] = d[:markersize]^2
diff --git a/src/plotter.jl b/src/plotter.jl
index 7e95ade1..8baececb 100644
--- a/src/plotter.jl
+++ b/src/plotter.jl
@@ -157,6 +157,7 @@ function backend()
         @eval import PyPlot
         @eval export PyPlot
         @eval const pycolors = PyPlot.pywrap(PyPlot.pyimport("matplotlib.colors"))
+        @eval const pypath = PyPlot.pywrap(PyPlot.pyimport("matplotlib.path"))
         # @eval const pycolorbar = PyPlot.pywrap(PyPlot.pyimport("matplotlib.colorbar"))
         if !isa(Base.Multimedia.displays[end], Base.REPL.REPLDisplay)
           PyPlot.ioff()
diff --git a/test/runtests.jl b/test/runtests.jl
index c2fe3606..47db71fb 100644
--- a/test/runtests.jl
+++ b/test/runtests.jl
@@ -49,8 +49,9 @@ facts("Gadfly") do
     # plot(x::AMat, y::AMat; kw...)              # multiple lines (one per column of x/y... will assert size(x) == size(y))
     @fact plot!(rand(10,3), rand(10,3)) --> not(nothing)
 
-    image_comparison_tests(:gadfly, skip=[4,19], eps=img_eps)
-
+    if VERSION >= v"0.4-"
+        image_comparison_tests(:gadfly, skip=[4,19], eps=img_eps)
+    end
 end
 
 
@@ -58,7 +59,7 @@ if VERSION >= v"0.4-"
     facts("PyPlot") do
         @fact pyplot() --> Plots.PyPlotPackage()
         @fact backend() --> Plots.PyPlotPackage()
-        image_comparison_tests(:pyplot, skip=[19], eps=img_eps)
+        image_comparison_tests(:pyplot, skip=[19,21], eps=img_eps)
     end
 end