I have been having problems with postscript output from MPL on my various Macs that is just beyond the problem discussed in the tread here. But this seemed like the best place to bring it up. The basic problem is that Adobe products like Illustrator can't read MPL .eps output.
When I 'Open' the file, OS X uses ghostscript to convert the EPS to PDF, and this displays fine. I can use Preview to save this file, and it looks alright, however, none of the Adobe products can read the PDF either. Usually the file will open, but the fonts are all screwed up. When I use pstopdf from teTeX (but *not* epstopdf -- that doesn't work for some strange reason), then I can open my new PDF file in illustrator. I think that opening an EPS in Illustrator is the ultimate test of EPS format compliance, as those are the folks who made it. What can we do to make MPL output universally readable postscript? -Rob p.s. One I finally do get it into Illustrator, it becomes clear that MPL makes very nice, efficient, easily editable files... unlike MATLAB. For me this is yet another big reason to switch to python/ numpy/mpl. ---- Rob Hetland, Associate Professor Dept. of Oceanography, Texas A&M University http://pong.tamu.edu/~rob phone: 979-458-0096, fax: 979-845-6331 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
