Re: [Matplotlib-users] best format for MS word?

[Stan W. <sta...@nr...>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shixin Zeng [mailto:zen...@gm...] 
> Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2009 16:11
> 
> While for embeding eps files in word, I've just tried that. MS word
> 2007 seems to have some problem on this. See the attached eps 
> file produced from matplotlib. In MS word 2007, the labels 
> and titles of axes are gone, even on the printed version of 
> the word file. It's there when I view/print it with gsview.

I don't have Word 2007, but I imported your file into Word 2003 and saw that
the titles and labels were missing.  I would blame that on shortcomings of the
Word PS engine.  When I printed to a non-PostScript printer, the titles and
labels were missing as in your test; that doesn't surprise me, because the
Word PS engine would be used to render for a non-PS printer.  However, when I
printed to PostScript devices (the Adobe PDF driver and the PDFCreator
driver), the titles and text were present; Word shouldn't invoke its PS engine
when the printer understands PS.  Is there any chance that you were using a
non-PS printer, or that your printer has two or more modes (like the
Hewlett-Packard models that automatically switch between PCL and PS) and you
were not using a PS driver?  How about testing with PDFCreator?