On 06/28/2010 04:30 AM, Benjamin Root wrote: > Just to note, in Linux, one can use the pdf2ps command. I believe
I recommend the pdftops command if you have it, instead of pdf2ps. At least on my system (ubuntu 10.04), pdf2ps seems to be embedding coarse bit-mapped versions of the fonts. The output looks pretty bad. Eric > 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 > <mailto: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 > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint > > What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? > > Visit sprint.com/first <http://sprint.com/first> -- > http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Matplotlib-users mailing list > > Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net > <mailto:Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net> > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint > What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? > Visit sprint.com/first <http://sprint.com/first> -- > http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first > _______________________________________________ > Matplotlib-users mailing list > Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net > <mailto:Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint > What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? > Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first > > > > _______________________________________________ > Matplotlib-users mailing list > Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
