Re: [Matplotlib-users] IDL Font question

[Angus M. <am...@gm...>]

On 01/11/2007, Jose Gomez-Dans <jgo...@gm...> wrote:
> Hi,
> Some colleagues have sent some plots which they generated using IDL
> (boo!!! hiss!! :D), and they look quite dissimilar to my matplotlib
> ones. I would like to mimic their layout as much as possible, which so
> far is a success. The only problem is that I don't know what font to
> use. In IDL, I believe it is called "Roman" (there's an smudged
> example here: <http://www.astro.ufl.edu/~warner/IDL5220/HW4w.jpg>).
> Does anyone know a suitable alternative?

Not quite the answer you were looking for, but a completely different
approach, if you can ask them to resend the data, is to get them to
save out a postscript file, which IDL can do. Then you can edit the
components with a tool like inkscape and standardise the fonts across
all graphs.

Angus.
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AJC McMorland, PhD Student
Physiology, University of Auckland