You may want to play with the ps.fonttype parameter. If it's type 3 (the default) only the characters used in the plot are embedded in the file. If type 42, the entire font is embedded. That may create the editability that the publisher is asking for.
Mike Sebastian Busch wrote: > Matthew Czesarski <matthew.czesar...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> ... it seems that MPL rasterizes everything in the >> production of its EPS output. Is there any way to get around this ... > > > hi matt, > > i think i know maybe what you mean: if i save a matplotlib figure as > eps and then use pstoedit for further processing with xfig, the > ticklabels are somehow not correctly recognized as text. > > as far as i understand, this is an issue with the mathtext > capabilities. you can see what i do as workaround in > http://www.thamnos.de/repos/sebtools/sebtools.main/sebtools.py > (class 'Fig', style 'f') > > unfortunately, i do not recall all details any more. if i was to look > into that again, i would start playing with the text.usetex parameter. > i would expect this to be enough to render linear axes correctly > (although not as nicely). if you have logarithmic axes, it gets more > complicated as something like 10^5 IS a mathtext. i've therefore made > a class MyLogFormatterMathtext which outputs the labels very ugly but > as normal text. > > i hope that something along these lines can help you, i was using > pstoedit a lot to see whether the text is recognized as text or not. > > good luck, > sebastian. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Throughout its 18-year history, RSA Conference consistently attracts the > world's best and brightest in the field, creating opportunities for Conference > attendees to learn about information security's most important issues through > interactions with peers, luminaries and emerging and established companies. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsaconf-dev2dev > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Matplotlib-users mailing list > Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users > -- Michael Droettboom Science Software Branch Operations and Engineering Division Space Telescope Science Institute Operated by AURA for NASA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Throughout its 18-year history, RSA Conference consistently attracts the world's best and brightest in the field, creating opportunities for Conference attendees to learn about information security's most important issues through interactions with peers, luminaries and emerging and established companies. http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsaconf-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
