On Tuesday 11 July 2006 01:22, Andrew Straw wrote:
> Darren Dale wrote:
> > Hi Andrew,
> >
> > On Monday 10 July 2006 8:19 pm, Andrew Straw wrote:
> >> Where should I start trying to debug an issue where Adobe Illustrator CS
> >> for Windows is unable to open my EPS file generated by matplotlib? When
> >> attempting to open the file, a a dialog pops up that says, "The
> >> operation cannot complete because of an unknown error." So much for
> >> informative error messages. Ghostview 3.6.1 can read the file just fine,
> >> and Acrobat Distiller 7.0 for windows can also convert it to a PDF just
> >> fine. FWIW, I'm using matplotlib.rc('ps',usedistiller=None), but I get
> >> similar problems setting usedistiller='xpdf'.
> >>
> >> I'm basically an EPS file newbie, so don't be afraid to give me the
> >> equivalent of "did you make sure the power switch is turned on".
> >
> > I have a feeling its a problem with the font handling. I cant open a file
> > in inkscape either, the image looks fine but the fonts are missing. Try
> > setting ps.usedistiller = ghostscript. That converts the file to
> > low-level postscript, which CS should definitely be able to open. It
> > worked for inkscape, at least.
>
> Hi Darren,
>
> Hmm, that didn't do it.
That is really surprising to me. How is it that Inkscape can open a postscript
file and Adobe's own software can not?
> Simple plots (like simple_plot.py) work with no
> distiller step, so it must be something about my more complex plot.
> Unfortunately, it's a rather complex menagerie of code that produces the
> plot so I'm afraid that if I want to narrow this down, it'll be rather
> painful and slow going. I might just stick with the
> MPL->EPS->Distiller->PDF->Illustrator toolchain, which seems to work for
> the moment.
If you get time, you might edit the postscript file by hand and comment out
large sections of the code, and try importing those modified files.
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