Re: [Matplotlib-users] Editable text from matplotlib?

[Jeff B. <jbl...@al...>]

On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 2:30 AM, Moore, Eric (NIH/NIDDK) [F] <eri...@ni...> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Is it ever possible to edit the text produced by matplotlib when saving to ps, eps or pdf?  No matter the combination of setting I try the text always imports as outlines rather than text.
> 
> If it makes a difference, I'm using CorelDraw.  Does this work for anyone?
> 
> Eric

Hi Eric,

Have you tried setting text.usetex to True in your matplotlibrc? That might help. For Postscript files, you may also have to use Poppler or Xpdf as your distiller. 

See http://matplotlib.org/users/usetex.html for more details.

Hope that helps,
Jeff