Just to note, in Linux, one can use the pdf2ps command. I believe Windows
users can use GhostScript to convert a pdf into an eps file rather than
using Illustrator for a simple conversion process.
Ben Root
On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 2:12 PM, Eric Firing <efir...@hawaii.edu> wrote:
> On 06/27/2010 08:06 AM, Eliss Parke wrote:
> > I'm creating charts in matplotlib and saving them using
> > savefig('chart.eps'). How can I make the labels actually be text rather
> > than paths, which seems to be the default? (when I open the .eps files
> > in Illustrator, I can't edit them as text)
>
> When you say "labels", are you referring to the tick labels?
>
> If so, near the top of your script, try:
>
> import matplotlib
> matplotlib.rcParams['axes.unicode_minus'] = False
>
> Otherwise all tick labels are treated as unicode by default, and unicode
> is rendered in the ps backend as a sequence of glyphs rather than as a
> single text string.
>
> You might also consider using matplotlib to write pdf files instead of
> ps. The eps format is older and more limited in its capabilities than
> pdf. You can always convert pdf to eps as a last step, if eps is what
> you ultimately need. I've never used Illustrator, but I presume it can
> happily import pdf and export eps.
>
> Eric
>
> >
> > I'm using the latest matplotlib and python on Windows XP.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Eliss
> >
> >
> >
> >
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