Re: [Matplotlib-users] How to mix maths & text in labels ?

[Darren D. <dd...@co...>]

On Thursday 02 June 2005 10:46 pm, Darren Dale wrote:
> >
> > If someone can come up with a foolproof way to make figures containing
> > TeX fonts that are acceptable to scientific journals, I, for one, would
> > be very grateful.
>
> John has gotten us most of the way there. I think the problem I am having
> embedding these LaTeX-generated eps files is related to the fact that the
> postscript constructs in the image are not isolated from the main documen=
t,
> dvips is not creative in naming them, and therefore the font properties (=
or
> encoding, or something) are being corrupted.
>
> Since I also have limited time, I could use epswrite for now. The resulti=
ng
> figures are not fantastic on screen, (I already had smooth line art enabl=
ed
> in Adobe Reader), but marginal improvements can be had by increasing the
> viewer's resolution.=20

I have some good news! This morning I discovered the ability to set the=20
resolution during the creation of an eps file with epswrite:

gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -dSAFER -q -r6000 -sDEVICE=3Depswrite -dLanguageLevel=
=3D3 \=20
=2DdEPSFitPage -sOutputFile=3Dfoo.eps foo.ps

This file can be embedded in a new latex document and it has no font=20
information so the text is rendered properly. The final output looks great=
=20
when printed or viewed with Adobe Reader. I think this is the way to go. As=
=20
for file size, the eps output from examples/tex_demo.py is about 50KB.=20

Sorry for all the recent noise (this discussion seems to have wandered thro=
ugh=20
several threads), but I was really starting to get worried about meeting my=
=20
deadlines! I'll try to commit the changes today.

Darren