Re: [Matplotlib-users] Font compatibility issue with Adobe Illustrator and MPL PDF's

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

Have you tried setting pdf.fonttype to "42", which will include the font 
verbatim rather than trying to subset it?  That may help with 
illustrator.  You may also have better luck importing an SVG into 
Illustrator.

Mike

On 09/13/2012 02:46 AM, florisvb wrote:
> I'm trying to get my pdf outputs from matplotlib to work properly in
> illustrator, but keep having the issue that illustrator does not recognize
> the computer modern fonts (eg. CMR10 etc). Everything else seems to work
> perfectly.
>
> I'm running matplotlib (1.1.1) in ubuntu precise, and illustrator (CS3) on
> my mac. I installed the fonts-cmu package on my ubuntu machine, and I have
> the cm fonts installed in illustrator (eg. cmr10 etc. as well as CMU Serif
> etc). I've been using the following options in matplotlib for pdf rendering,
> and haven't been able to make the fonts work in illustrator:
>
> backend: Agg (also tried pdf)
> usedistiller: xpdf
> font.family: serif
> font.serif: CMU Serif
> text.usetex: True
> text.latex.unicode: True (also tried the default)
>
> After some searching it seemed like I should try the Pgf backend project,
> which supports xelatex:
> https://github.com/pwuertz
>
> But after importing that pgf backend with:
>
> import matplotlib as mpl
> mpl.use("module://backend_pgf")
>
> then importing matplotlib.pyplot yields this error:
>
> from matplotlib.cbook import check_output
> ImportError: cannot import name check_output
>
> All I could find after search was that I needed python 2.7+... but I am
> using python 2.7.3.
>
> Any suggestions for how to get my matplotlib/pdf fonts to work properly in
> Illustrator would be much appreciated... via whatever method is easiest!
>
> Thanks,
>
> - Floris
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