On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:25:51 -0600 William Henney <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Chris, Michael et al., > > On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 7:29 AM, Chris van Dijk > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Yes you are right, by looking into the eps file I can see that the > > fonts are embedded in there (as a side note does anybody know of a > > convenient tool like pdffonts for eps?). So the problem is obviously > > not with PyX. Apologies for bothering you guys then... > > > > I will just need to figure something else out, as the text in my > > figures does not show up in the merged pdf compiled from my tex > > file by the system. I would prefer not to use a standard font for > > the figures, as the rest of the article is in computer modern too. > > I use the graphicx package to include the figures if it matters. > > In my experience with most journals (with some honorable exceptions), > their definition of an "acceptable" figure is one that works with > their buggy, outdated, proprietary software. Figures produced by > LaTeX, PyX, etc often do clever things with the EPS that, even though > they may be perfectly standards-compliant, often throw a spanner into > their inflexible workflow. Two recent examples that I remember off the > top of my head are negative values in the bounding box (which > apparently confuses the hell out of some old version of Adobe > Illustrator), and that my fonts, although embedded, were also > subsetted, which they did not like. > > There is little point in fighting with them about this. The easiest > approach is to simply post-process your PyX-created graphics to > convert them into high-resolution, anti-aliased raster images or > low-level vector postscript commands before you submit the figures. > Which is more appropriate depends on the nature of your figures. A > side effect of converting to low-level postscript (e.g., with > ghostscript's epswrite device) is that all the text is converted to > outlines, so there are no longer any fonts in your file at all. > > Below I have pasted an example bash script that I wrote a few years > back, which does a bit of both. You probably already have gs, but you > will likely have to download http://imgtops.sourceforge.net, which is > a (now old and seemingly unmaintained) python package that includes > both the imgtops and epstoimg utilities. On the other hand, there may > now be better ways of embedding raster images in EPS. > > The script sanitizes each figure listed in figlist.txt according to > the heuristics described in the comments. Maybe you will find it > useful. > > On a more positive note, I have noticed that journals that have gone > over to an all-PDF workflow seem to be able to deal much better with > PyX-generated figures. So these steps may become increasingly > unnecessary as EPS dies out in scientific publishing. > > Cheers > > Will > > #! /bin/bash > # > # convertfigs.sh - Will Henney ([email protected]) 11 Sep 2006 > # > # Revised 28 Dec 2006 to do revised version of paper (one new figure) > # > outdir=../Revised > i=0 > for origfig in $(cat figlist.txt); do > i=$(( i + 1 )) > newname=$outdir/f$i > if [ -f $origfig.eps ]; then > # these are files written by PyX - need to pass through gs > # to convert all fonts to outlines > echo "$newname: converting fonts to outlines" > gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -dSAFER -q -dEPSFitPage \ > -dNOCACHE -sDEVICE=epswrite \ > -sOutputFile=$newname.ps $origfig.eps > elif [ -f $origfig.pdf ]; then > # convert PDF to image with width 1600 pixels > printf '%s' "$newname: converting to image..." > epstoimg -v -w 1600 -o $origfig.png $origfig.pdf > # then embed in a PS file > printf '%s\n' "... and embedding in PS" > imgtops -v -o $newname.ps $origfig.png > else > # already an image, just embed in a PS file > echo "$newname: embedding in PS" > imgtops -v -o $newname.ps $origfig.jpg > fi > done > > > > > Hey Will, Thanks for your input, that script was indeed useful. For now I converted the eps figures to low-level paths, so that should alleviate the problem of fonts for now. It is a good enough solution for this article anyway. Thanks everybody for your help, Chris ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ PyX-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pyx-user
