Re: [Matplotlib-users] LaTeX, eps, ghostscript, and the like

[Samuel M. S. <sm...@sa...>]

On 09 Feb, 2006, at 08:58, Robert Hetland wrote:

>
> This was a font problem I was having in LaTeX compilation.  Many of  
> the issues that you and I are having are slightly beyond mpl, and  
> have to do with different ways different versions of LaTeX deal  
> with fonts, etc.  The change to texmanager.py (below) was to not  
> load the fontenc package.   When this package was loaded, LaTeX was  
> producing illegible postscript (for reasons I don't entirely  
> understand).   This was *separate* from the dvipng hack, which was  
> required for me to get decent bitmapped images.  The excluding the  
> fontenc package is required for EPS (vector) output, so these two  
> issues are completely separate.

I have never been able to get .ps files that will convert to .pdf  
using adobe distiller. Always get a font related error and distiller  
bails.
But the .eps files work fine for converting to .pdf.
So if I comment out fontenc, will that break .eps but fix .ps?

>
> The texmanager.py simply performs a number of LaTeX opperations.   
> The best advice I got was to try to do as much of this by hand as  
> possible, to see where the potential problems lie.  Turn on the  
> debug-annoying to see everything that mpl is doing while it creates  
> your plots.
>
> -Rob
>
>
> On Feb 9, 2006, at 8:59 AM, Samuel M. Smith wrote:
>
>> what is this doing differently than the 1.6 hack?
>> what is wrong with the eps files?
>>
>>>   Also, commenting out line 141 in texmanager:
>>>
>>>         self._font_preamble = '\n'.join([r'\usepackage{type1cm}',
>>>                              cmd,
>>> #                             r'\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}',     #  
>>> The guilty line
>>>                              r'\usepackage{textcomp}'])k
>>>
>>> allowed me to save EPS files that work very well.
>>>
>>> Finally, for those of you interested in editing EPS files in  
>>> Illustrator, you need to worry about the absence of the Computer  
>>> Modern fonts in Adobe products.  This link (really work checking  
>>> out if you do scientific graphics on a Mac) explains how to get  
>>> everything working for Illustrator CS and CS2:
>>
>
> -----
> Rob Hetland, Assistant Professor
> Dept of Oceanography, Texas A&M University
> p: 979-458-0096, f: 979-845-6331
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>

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