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

[Humufr <hu...@ya...>]

Hi,

there are sometimes I change a little bit the function load to extend it 
a little bit and increase the speed, John didn't like it but that can be 
useful for some other people like you:

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=10836085

Regards,

N.


William Henney wrote:

>Hi Chris
>
>On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 12:28 -0400, Darren Dale wrote:
>  
>
>>>One thing you need to bear in mind if you are using TeX to
>>>generate PS output is that the resultant files will probably be
>>>unacceptable to many scientific journals without further processing. The
>>>production staff generally try to open the PS files in Adobe Illustrator
>>>and this causes multiple problems with files generated both by PyX and
>>>by dvips. 
>>>      
>>>
>>Why is this?
>>
>>    
>>
>
>The main problem was the fonts. The first thing they do as a matter of
>policy is to open the file in Adobe Illustrator. This requires that the
>full font be present in the file apparently (I only have this second
>hand) because Illustrator allows you to edit the text of the labels. A
>little bit like running a PS file through pstoedit and then editing it
>with xfig I guess - that doesn't work with TeX fonts either.
>
>Here is the thread from when I raised the issue with the helpful folk on
>comp.text.tex
>
>http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.text.tex/browse_frm/thread/d19575460c561d6b/d447807bb7813dba
>
>There may be a solution that does not involve converting all fonts to
>paths but that was the easiest way out since I was under time-pressure
>and dealing with production staff who seemed to be working from a very
>limited script :) 
>
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>
>>>The solution is to convert all fonts to outlines before 
>>>submission (and also make sure all bbox coords are +ve). You can do this
>>>with recent versions of ghostscript:
>>>
>>> gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -dSAFER -q -sDEVICE=epswrite -dEPSFitPage \
>>>    -sOutputFile=new.eps old.eps
>>>      
>>>
>>Coincidentally, I was just addressing the use of gs's epswrite this morning on 
>>the matplotlib-devel list. Unfortunately, epswrite will yield a file that 
>>does not render well on screen. Given the increasing popularity of online 
>>publication, it seems this approach for generating eps files would not be 
>>acceptable to scientific journals either.
>>
>>    
>>
>
>I think it looks fine so long as you turn on the "Smooth line art"
>option in your PDF viewer. Unfortunately, this is not on by default in
>acroread, presumably because it increases rendering times. 
>
>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.
> 
>
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>>>1. Good, flexible support for reading data from files
>>>      
>>>
>>Could you give an example? In my experience, datafiles tend to get so 
>>complicated that all of Matlabs tools were useless. I end up writing code 
>>specific to every type that isnt as simple as a few comment lines that are 
>>ignored followed by a delimited array of data
>>
>>    
>>
>
>Yes, I wasn't thinking of specialized data formats. Python already has
>fine support for reading, e.g., FITS files. I was thinking more along
>the lines of gnuplot's support for simple ascii data tables. E.g., easy
>selection of columns to plot, single blank line indicating a gap in the
>plot, double blank line indicating a new dataset, etc. This is all
>trivial stuff that I can easily write myself but it would be nice if it
>were a part of the plotting package (PyX does this well). It's not
>really a sticking point though. 
>
>Cheers
>
>Will 
>
>
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