Re: [MiKTeX] Problems with fonts in eps files

[<joh...@gm...>]

Just wanted to let you all know that I solved the problem. I compiled the
same figures at my laptop at home, and here it looks as it should.

Again, thanks so much!

~Johan

On 3/24/07, Johan S=F6derstr=F6m <joh...@gm...> wrote:
>
>
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Alan Ristow <ri...@ec...>
> Date: Mar 24, 2007 8:07 PM
> Subject: Re: [MiKTeX] Problems with fonts in eps files
> To: "A place for MiKTeX users to discuss MiKTeX related questions." <mikt=
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>
> George N. White III wrote:
> > On 3/24/07, Johan S=F6derstr=F6m <joh...@gm...> wrote:
> >
> >> Dear MiKTeX experts!
> >>
> >> I am sorry for making my first appearance on this list with a silly
> >> question, but I have a serious deadline for my thesis and cannot solve
> this
> >> problem myself...
> >>
> >> I have several figures generated as .eps files. The files are saved so
> that
> >> the encoding for the text is not saved in the file (for standard fonts=
)
> I
> >> have many many files with Times-Roman and Times-Bold encoding.
> >
> > Many files with .eps extensions have problems, including some created
> > by popular and expensive commercial packages.  If you can render the
> > file (e.g., using gsview) there is a good chance you can convert it to
> > pdf that can be used with pdflatex in place of the ".eps" files.   I
> think
> > MikTeX includes the ps2pdf scripts from ghostscript, but there are
> > plenty of alternatives if you can't get those to run.
> >
> > If you have access to Inkscape or a recent version of Adobe
> > Illustrator or similar package, you may be able to load the
> > problematic ".eps" files, clean up fonts, etc. and save as proper .eps
> > or .pdf.
>
> Alternatively, if you have Ghostscript installed you can try eps2eps.
> It's a rather redundant-seeming script that converts from .eps to .eps,
> but it often has the effect of rewriting malformed Postscript correctly
> and fixing problematic files.
>
> Incidentally, I have had trouble with Acrobat Distiller and non-embedded
> system fonts when converting .ps files to .pdf. I'm not really all that
> keen on using Distiller, so I never followed up and figured out what the
> problem was, but if you're using Distiller you might trying using
> Ghostscript's ps2pdf script instead.
>
> >> I am using TeXnicCenter as an editor and compiling in the editor
> (Ctrl+F7).
> >> I am using MiKTeX as distribution - it seems like the editor is callin=
g
>
> >> pdfetex (version 3.141592-1.30.6-2.2 MiKTeX 2.5) when creating the pdf
> file
> >> (I first create a ps file, then a pdf - directly creating a pdf does
> not
> >> work for some reason).
> >
> > Pdftex in pdf output mode can't handle .eps files directly.
>
> Just to be clear, whenever you run TeX, LaTeX, pdfTeX, or pdfLaTeX,
> MiKTeX uses pdfeTeX as the typesetting engine. The commands it
> understands depends on the "mode" in which it operates and, to be simple
> about it, the mode is determined by the command you type on the command
> line (or in this case, the one that TeXnicCenter types for you). Thus,
> no matter which flavor of TeX you run, MiKTeX will always report that it
> is using pdfeTeX.
>
> Alan
>
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Johan S=F6derstr=F6m
Ph.D. student in Atomic and molecular physics
My group in Uppsala http://usxs.fysik.uu.se
Cellphone: +46(0)704 800 447
Office: +46(0)18 471 35 10