Re: [Matplotlib-users] SVG export text grouping on mac

[Michael D. <md...@st...>]

Yes.  I'll fix that.  Thanks.

Kaushik Ghose wrote:
> Thanks, that worked!
>
> Small note, the example matplotlibrc file on the website 
> (http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/matplotlibrc) as well as the one in 
> the most recent mac OS egg has "svg.embed_chars".
>
> Thanks
> -Kaushik
>
> Michael Droettboom wrote:
>> Sorry.  I mistyped.  It's "svg.embed_char_paths"
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Mike
>>
>> Kaushik Ghose wrote:
>>> Hi Mike,
>>>
>>> Thanks for the tip. I tried it, but I get the following message:
>>>
>>> Bad key "svg.embed_chars" on line 294 in
>>> /Users/kghose/.matplotlib/matplotlibrc.
>>> You probably need to get an updated matplotlibrc file from
>>> http://matplotlib.sf.net/matplotlibrc or from the matplotlib source
>>> distribution
>>>
>>> The text is still exported as path.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> -Kaushik
>>>
>>>
>>> Michael Droettboom wrote:
>>>> The rcParam svg.embed_chars controls this behavior.  I would assume 
>>>> it is set differently on your Windows and Mac boxes.
>>>>
>>>> When it is True, rather than outputting <text> blocks, it embeds 
>>>> the characters as outlines.  This means that the fonts do not have 
>>>> to be installed just to view the SVG correctly.  The upside is 
>>>> better "portability" of the file.  The downside is that the text 
>>>> can be impossible to edit in tools such as Inkscape or 
>>>> Illustrator.  (Using SVG fonts would have been better, but there 
>>>> isn't much support for them in the wild yet).
>>>>
>>>> When it is False, regular text blocks are used, but things will 
>>>> look strange (particularly with math text) if the correct fonts are 
>>>> not installed on the viewer's machine.
>>>>
>>>> Hope that helps.
>>>>
>>>> Mike
>>>>
>>>> Kaushik Ghose wrote:
>>>>> Hi Everyone,
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm using matplotlib on mac 
>>>>> (matplotlib-0.91.2-py2.5-macosx-10.3-fat.egg) .
>>>>>
>>>>> On windows svg export would have very sensible text grouping. For 
>>>>> example an xlabel('Time') when saved to svg results in one text 
>>>>> object 'Time'.
>>>>>
>>>>> In the mac version this is saved as 5 separate objects, not text. 
>>>>> A little puzzling, and inconvenient.
>>>>>
>>>>> Is there an option somewhere to change this behavior?
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm attaching an example svg.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks!
>>>>> -Kaushik
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