Hmm, there is definitely a difference in qualiity. Thanks for the tip!/
Ben Root
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Eric Firing <efir...@hawaii.edu> wrote:
> 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
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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