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 <e...@redtetrahedron.org> 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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