Re: [Matplotlib-users] mathtext in eps figures doesn't come out in pdf

[Jonathan S. <js...@cf...>]

I did have success converting my ps file to pdf with an online converter
at http://www.ps2pdf.com/ -- so it seems it's ghostscript 8.70 bug
(though one that I've only seen with eps files created by matplotlib).

Jon

On Fri, 2011-08-19 at 11:48 +0900, Jae-Joon Lee wrote:
> When I converted the ps file to pdf, the result is okay.
> 
> I tried
> 
>   * ps2pdf (from ghostscript version 8.61)
>   * ps2pdf (from ghostscript version 9.02)
>   * preview in mac os X
> 
> and they all worked fine.
> I wonder if this could be a bug in the pspdf (ghostscript 8.70 I believe).
> Can you try other version of ps2pdf?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> -JJ
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 9:53 PM, Jonathan Slavin
> <js...@cf...> wrote:
> > Attached are examples of the problem -- a PostScript file and the pdf
> > that is created using ps2pdf.  The y-axis is properly labeled in the ps
> > file, but the part of the label using mathtext becomes invisible in the
> > pdf.
> >
> > Jon
> >
> > On Wed, 2011-08-17 at 14:09 +0900, Jae-Joon Lee wrote:
> >> Can you post an output eps file so that we can take a look?
> >> Regards,
> >>
> >> -JJ
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 5:52 AM, Jonathan Slavin
> >> <js...@cf...> wrote:
> >> > Hi all,
> >> >
> >> > I've been making figures for a paper I'm writing (to be submitted to the
> >> > ApJ).  I'm using LaTeX and so need to use encapsulated PostScript for
> >> > the figures.  The problem is that when the paper is translated to pdf
> >> > from PostScript, the mathtext in the figures disappears.  The reason
> >> > that I think this is a matplotlib issue is that it's never happened to
> >> > me with eps figures created in different ways.  It's clear that this
> >> > must be related to fonts, but I'm not sure how to get around it.  Should
> >> > I set text.usetex to True?  I have a feeling this issue must have come
> >> > up before, but I haven't found anything obviously pertinent in the
> >> > mailing list archives.
> >> >
> >> > Jon
> >> >
> >> >
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Jonathan D. Slavin              Harvard-Smithsonian CfA
js...@cf...         60 Garden Street, MS 83
phone: (617) 496-7981           Cambridge, MA 02138-1516
 cell: (781) 363-0035           USA
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