Re: [matplotlib-devel] Produce text runs in the postscript backend

[Benjamin R. <ben...@ou...>]

I would be +1 on this as well. Various command-line text extraction tools
are near useless with the current state.

On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 9:42 AM, Benjamin Reedlunn <bre...@gm...>
wrote:

> I am in favor of such a change.  I also have rcParams['pdf.fonttype'] =
> 42, so I can use Adobe Illustrator to tweak my mpl generated plots.
> Changing a word in Illustrator becomes quite a pain when every glyph is a
> separate text box.
>
> -Ben Reedlunn
>
> On Feb 18, 2015, at 8:52 AM, Eric Moore <ew...@re...> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I posted on the user list a while back about saving editable text using
> the postscript backend [1].  There I was informed that this was changed a
> few years ago to individually place glyphs.  It looks to me, that this
> change was about correctly supporting unicode in this backend [2].
>
> Would the project be open to changing this to produce text runs when all
> of the characters are ascii? This way, the general unicode case should
> still work but runs of text where the special handling is not necessary
> should result in editable text.  I'm happy to work up a patch, but I don't
> want to spend the time if there is no hope of it being merged.
>
> My use case is to be able to make some tweaks to figures post mpl.  In my
> case this tends to be to either combine figures from several sources into a
> single coherent figure or to adjust the figure size or spacing slightly so
> the final figure fits into the space available.  All of this can be done in
> mpl directly, but in terms of effective use of my time, opening the figure
> in Corel Draw, Inkscape or Illustrator is much faster since I can get the
> figure 90% of the way there quickly and easily using mpl.
>
> Eric
>
> 1. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.matplotlib.general/34816
> 2.
> https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/commit/80321a3b489994748b79e41bc34a65f836a9a03f
>
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