I'm relatively new to PyX but it seems to be a very nice program. I've been using matplotlib a lot in the past 2 years to plot the majority of my data/graphics, but I'm getting quite frustrated with it's font handling. It seems for quick plots it's great, but for anything sophisticated, I have to bring it in to redo all of the text elements in the appropriate font.
For what it's worth, I'm using pdftex, Illustrator 10, and typesetting in Adobe Garamond Premier (with math from the mathpazo package). I tried out PyX and with in a very short period of time, I was able to get a plot to look pretty much exactly how I wanted it. The labels are in Garamond Premier, I'm able to easily enter greek/math for text, and best of all I can have my data generation/analysis in the same script that I plot in; if I make a change to a data point, I don't have to open the new file up in Illustrator and retouch everything. Problem: my output pdf file is 600kb. Way to big. The corresponding matplotlib eps -> epstopdf file is about 12kb. I'm assuming this is a font embedding issue. I found a little hint on the web that advises one to run a pdf like mine through GhostScript and convert the fonts into outlines (a ps file), then run it through pstopdf. This did indeed work for printing and viewing, though editability in Illustrator is severely hampered: line weights are off, etc. So... Is there a way that I can skip the whole ghostscript step? Does PyX have a method to NOT embed the whole font? Of course, not using my custom font works fine as expected (17kb file). This whole process has been somewhat frustrating for me. Metapost graphing seemed to be close to what I was looking for as far as workflow, but graphing in metapost seems somewhat limited. Since I already use Python for scripting, PyX seems perfect for what I am looking for but this font thing is a bit annoying. Hope you guys can help. Tim ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ PyX-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pyx-user
