Re: [Matplotlib-users] Font problems with generated EPSs

[Christian K. <ck...@ho...>]

Darren Dale wrote:
> On Tuesday 06 December 2005 10:03, Christian Kristukat wrote:
> 
>>Darren Dale wrote:
>>
>>>On Tuesday 06 December 2005 09:10, Alex Gontmakher wrote:
>>>
>>>>Hi,
>>>>
>>>>I'm trying to use matplotlib solely for my plotting needs.
>>>>Problem is, the fonts are embedded in each EPS file, and
>>>>when I import several plots (I have tens of them...) into a
>>>>single Latex, the resulting file is HUGE.
>>>>
>>>>Any suggestions?
>>>
>>>There are currently two options: you can either set ps.useafm = True, or
>>>you can set text.usetex = True in your rc settings. Since you are
>>>importing figures into latex, I suggest the usetex option. That way, your
>>>figure fonts can be the same as your text fonts. You'll take a bit of a
>>>speed hit with the latter option, but in my opinion, its the only way to
>>>go for generating plots for publication.
>>
>>When using tex for font rendering I noticed that parts of the text are not
>>converted to polygons but embedded as bitmaps. That makes the files big
>>again. Do you now how to avoid that? E.g. using the r'$C_{12}$ will produce
>>two images for the numbers and a polygon for the 'C'.
> 
> 
> I made a wiki entry a while back about how to work around this problem, but it 
> looks like someone deleted it in mid-November, and I dont have a backup copy.
> My solution requires ghostview and xpdf, which is why we dont include it in 
> mpl by default.

Thanks!
Has using pdflatex for tex labels been considered? Or is that too much
dependency? It could possibly even be faster.

Christian