On 6/4/07, Dave Baum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have been looking at the problem of figures saved as EPS images not > printing correctly under from MS Word (an invalidrestore error is > generated). I believe that matplotlib is incorrectly creating the > EPS file. According to the DSC Spec (http://partners.adobe.com/ > public/developer/en/ps/5001.DSC_Spec.pdf), the Prolog section should > only contain procset definitions (which should also be enclosed in %% > BeginResource / %%EndResource pairs). It looks like the generated > EPS files contain an ordinary dictionary definition as well as font > information in the Prolog. I believe these commands should more > properly be moved to the Script section of the document (perhaps > within the %%BeginSetup/%%EndSetup sub-section). > > I manually edited an EPS file to make the prolog empty, and moved the > mpldict definition to the body of the file, and it then worked fine > with MS Word.
This is great Dave -- could you send a patch against backend_ps for us? Thanks, JDH ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
