Re: [Matplotlib-users] Type 1 fonts with log graphs

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

On 10/30/2012 12:25 PM, Brandon Heller wrote:
> Hi Phil,
>
> Next time I'll be more explicit.  I added the question to SA after I 
> tried to get a public link to my message and saw that archives past 
> July of this year seem to be missing.  It wasn't clear that this list 
> was even still alive:
> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=matplotlib-users
>
> Any idea why the archives seem to have stopped?

Thanks for pointing that out.  I'm not sure what's wrong, but I'll look 
into it.

Mike
>
> Thanks,
> Brandon
>
> On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 2:23 AM, Phil Elson <pel...@gm... 
> <mailto:pel...@gm...>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Brandon,
>
>     I notice that this is cross-posted on StackOverflow
>     (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13132194/type-1-fonts-with-log-graphs).
>     Personally, I have no problem with cross posting, but to save two
>     people having to answer the same question, I would make sure it
>     was explicit that this had also been posted elsewhere.
>
>     Thanks,
>
>     Phil
>
>
>     On 30 October 2012 03:13, Brandon Heller <bra...@st...
>     <mailto:bra...@st...>> wrote:
>
>         Hi,
>
>         I'm trying to use Matplotlib graphs as part of a camera-ready
>         submission, and the publishing house requires the use of Type
>         1 fonts
>         only.
>
>         I'm finding that the PDF backend happily outputs Type-1 fonts for
>         simple graphs with linear Y axes, but outputs Type-3 fonts for
>         logarithmic Y axes.
>
>         Using a logarithmic yscale incurs the use of mathtext, which
>         seems to
>         use Type 3 fonts, presumably because of the default use of
>         exponential
>         notation.  I can use an ugly hack to get around this - using
>         pyplot.yticks() to force the axis ticks to not use exponents - but
>         this would require moving the plot region to accommodate large
>         labels
>         (like 10 ^ 6) or writing the axes as 10, 100, 1K, etc. so they
>         fit.
>
>         There's a minimum working example below, which I've tested
>         with the
>         matplotlib master branch as of today, as well as 1.1.1, which
>         produces
>         the same behavior, so I don't know that this is a bug,
>         probably just
>         unexpected behavior.
>
>
>         #!/usr/bin/env python
>         # Simple program to test for type 1 fonts.
>         # Generate a line graph w/linear and log Y axes.
>
>         from matplotlib import rc, rcParams
>
>         #rc('font',**{'family':'sans-serif','sans-serif':['Helvetica']})
>
>         # These lines are needed to get type-1 results:
>         #
>         http://nerdjusttyped.blogspot.com/2010/07/type-1-fonts-and-matplotlib-figures.html
>         rcParams['ps.useafm'] = True
>         rcParams['pdf.use14corefonts'] = True
>         rcParams['text.usetex'] = False
>
>         import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
>
>         YSCALES = ['linear', 'log']
>
>         def plot(filename, yscale):
>             plt.figure(1)
>             xvals = range(1, 2)
>             yvals = xvals
>             plt.plot(xvals, yvals)
>             plt.yscale(yscale)
>             #YTICKS = [1, 10]
>             #plt.yticks(YTICKS, YTICKS)  # locs, labels
>             ax = plt.gca()
>             #print ax.get_xticklabels()[0].get_text()
>             print ",".join([a.get_label() for a in ax.get_yticklabels()])
>             plt.savefig(filename + '.pdf')
>
>
>         if __name__ == '__main__':
>             for yscale in YSCALES:
>                 plot('linegraph-' + yscale, yscale)
>
>
>
>         Does anyone know a clean way to get Type 1 fonts with log axes?
>
>         Thanks,
>         Brandon
>
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