Thank you for your answer. On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 12:18, Jeremy Sanders <[email protected]>wrote:
> On 07/01/12 12:06, Per Nielsen wrote: > > > I recently discovered Veusz and was quite happy as it seemed to solve > > many of my plotting frustrations. However, then I realized the lack of > > latex support, which for me is essential. > > Do you need complete latex support or is it just particular features? > Preferably I would like complete latex support. > > > Then I tried using Veusz in conjunction with psfrag to enable latex > > support, which did not work. After trying psfrag with matplotlib for > > Python, which to my surprise did not work either, and some googling I > > found the following post: > > > > > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg19767.html > > > > Apparently psfrag searches for some specific string format for its latex > > replacement, which a recent version of matplotlib has changed, breaking > > psfrag support in matplotlib. > > > > Might this issue be the same for Veusz? If so, are there plans to fix it > > or is there perhaps some workaround? > > Unfortunately it's Qt which produces the postscript output from drawing > commands sent by Veusz. It doesn't seem to put the text strings directly > into the postscript output but encodes them. > > I can't think of an obvious easy fix. What could be done is: > > 1. Write our own EPS output driver, like I've done for SVG. This would > work, but I don't know how to get fonts to embed as postscript fonts. It > might be some work too! > This is way over my head :) > > 2. Write SVG output using the current development version and convert to > EPS using inkscape. The development version has an option to export text > as text in the SVG file (not curves). I think inkscape might be able to > write psfrag compatible postscript. > I will try this out! > > 3. Maybe translate what Qt is writing into the EPS file back into text. > I tried to look at the EPS file in a text editor, but could not make any sense of it... > > Jeremy > > Per
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