On Jul 7, 2006, at 5:16 PM, John Hunter wrote:

PDF is certainly an important document format, but it doesn't seem to

be widely used for figures.


I only use PDF figures.  They are useful both in pdflatex (how I write), and play nice with all of the other mac utilities, in particular Keynote (how I present).  They are generally small, and good looking at any size because of the vector graphics.

When converting MPL figures to pdf I usually just export to eps, then convert using ghostscript.  In fact, if you open an eps file, OS X will do the conversion automagically, and open your new pdf in Preview.  For publication quality (with annotations, etc), I export to eps, edit in Illustrator, and eventually export to pdf.

I'm not suggesting immediate development for a PDF backend (although if it came automatically with kiva, I would use it), I think eps+ghostscript is good enough for now.  However, general pdf support is an important issue for me.

-Rob
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