Re: [Matplotlib-users] Type 1 fonts with log graphs
Hi Brandon,
I notice that this is cross-posted on StackOverflow (
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13132194/type-1-fonts-with-log-graphs).
Personally, I have no problem with cross posting, but to save two people
having to answer the same question, I would make sure it was explicit that
this had also been posted elsewhere.
Thanks,
Phil
On 30 October 2012 03:13, Brandon Heller brand...@stanford.edu wrote:
Hi,
I'm trying to use Matplotlib graphs as part of a camera-ready
submission, and the publishing house requires the use of Type 1 fonts
only.
I'm finding that the PDF backend happily outputs Type-1 fonts for
simple graphs with linear Y axes, but outputs Type-3 fonts for
logarithmic Y axes.
Using a logarithmic yscale incurs the use of mathtext, which seems to
use Type 3 fonts, presumably because of the default use of exponential
notation. I can use an ugly hack to get around this - using
pyplot.yticks() to force the axis ticks to not use exponents - but
this would require moving the plot region to accommodate large labels
(like 10 ^ 6) or writing the axes as 10, 100, 1K, etc. so they fit.
There's a minimum working example below, which I've tested with the
matplotlib master branch as of today, as well as 1.1.1, which produces
the same behavior, so I don't know that this is a bug, probably just
unexpected behavior.
#!/usr/bin/env python
# Simple program to test for type 1 fonts.
# Generate a line graph w/linear and log Y axes.
from matplotlib import rc, rcParams
#rc('font',**{'family':'sans-serif','sans-serif':['Helvetica']})
# These lines are needed to get type-1 results:
#
http://nerdjusttyped.blogspot.com/2010/07/type-1-fonts-and-matplotlib-figures.html
rcParams['ps.useafm'] = True
rcParams['pdf.use14corefonts'] = True
rcParams['text.usetex'] = False
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
YSCALES = ['linear', 'log']
def plot(filename, yscale):
plt.figure(1)
xvals = range(1, 2)
yvals = xvals
plt.plot(xvals, yvals)
plt.yscale(yscale)
#YTICKS = [1, 10]
#plt.yticks(YTICKS, YTICKS) # locs, labels
ax = plt.gca()
#print ax.get_xticklabels()[0].get_text()
print ,.join([a.get_label() for a in ax.get_yticklabels()])
plt.savefig(filename + '.pdf')
if __name__ == '__main__':
for yscale in YSCALES:
plot('linegraph-' + yscale, yscale)
Does anyone know a clean way to get Type 1 fonts with log axes?
Thanks,
Brandon
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Re: [Matplotlib-users] Type 1 fonts with log graphs
There are a couple of alternative formatters for log scaling that don't
require mathtext.
You can do:
from matplotlib.tickers import LogFormatter, LogFormatterExponent
...
ax.xaxis.set_major_formatter(LogFormatter())
# or LogFormatterExponent(), which is just the exponent
To clarify the font issue. The PDF backend has no support for
outputting Type 1 fonts. There is an rcParam pdf.fonttype that allows
you to choose between Type 3 and Type 42 fonts, however. Type 3 stores
each character as a path and then uses those to put strings together.
It supports font subsetting, so an entire large font is not embedded in
the file. Type 42 (essentially) just embeds a TrueType font in the
file, and we don't support subsetting there.
There is also the pdf.use14corefonts that will use the 14 built-in PDF
fonts whenever possible (and therefore not embed any fonts). However,
mathtext requires a special font for the math symbols, and thus it
starts to embed fonts.
You may try setting mathtext.default to regular, which will use the
font used as the default for the rest of the text first. This should
have the effect of not embedding any extra fonts in the file as long as
you don't use any special symbols in the math.
Mike
On 10/30/2012 05:23 AM, Phil Elson wrote:
Hi Brandon,
I notice that this is cross-posted on StackOverflow
(http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13132194/type-1-fonts-with-log-graphs).
Personally, I have no problem with cross posting, but to save two
people having to answer the same question, I would make sure it was
explicit that this had also been posted elsewhere.
Thanks,
Phil
On 30 October 2012 03:13, Brandon Heller brand...@stanford.edu
mailto:brand...@stanford.edu wrote:
Hi,
I'm trying to use Matplotlib graphs as part of a camera-ready
submission, and the publishing house requires the use of Type 1 fonts
only.
I'm finding that the PDF backend happily outputs Type-1 fonts for
simple graphs with linear Y axes, but outputs Type-3 fonts for
logarithmic Y axes.
Using a logarithmic yscale incurs the use of mathtext, which seems to
use Type 3 fonts, presumably because of the default use of exponential
notation. I can use an ugly hack to get around this - using
pyplot.yticks() to force the axis ticks to not use exponents - but
this would require moving the plot region to accommodate large labels
(like 10 ^ 6) or writing the axes as 10, 100, 1K, etc. so they fit.
There's a minimum working example below, which I've tested with the
matplotlib master branch as of today, as well as 1.1.1, which produces
the same behavior, so I don't know that this is a bug, probably just
unexpected behavior.
#!/usr/bin/env python
# Simple program to test for type 1 fonts.
# Generate a line graph w/linear and log Y axes.
from matplotlib import rc, rcParams
#rc('font',**{'family':'sans-serif','sans-serif':['Helvetica']})
# These lines are needed to get type-1 results:
#
http://nerdjusttyped.blogspot.com/2010/07/type-1-fonts-and-matplotlib-figures.html
rcParams['ps.useafm'] = True
rcParams['pdf.use14corefonts'] = True
rcParams['text.usetex'] = False
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
YSCALES = ['linear', 'log']
def plot(filename, yscale):
plt.figure(1)
xvals = range(1, 2)
yvals = xvals
plt.plot(xvals, yvals)
plt.yscale(yscale)
#YTICKS = [1, 10]
#plt.yticks(YTICKS, YTICKS) # locs, labels
ax = plt.gca()
#print ax.get_xticklabels()[0].get_text()
print ,.join([a.get_label() for a in ax.get_yticklabels()])
plt.savefig(filename + '.pdf')
if __name__ == '__main__':
for yscale in YSCALES:
plot('linegraph-' + yscale, yscale)
Does anyone know a clean way to get Type 1 fonts with log axes?
Thanks,
Brandon
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Re: [Matplotlib-users] Type 1 fonts with log graphs
Hi Phil,
Next time I'll be more explicit. I added the question to SA after I tried
to get a public link to my message and saw that archives past July of this
year seem to be missing. It wasn't clear that this list was even still
alive:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=matplotlib-users
Any idea why the archives seem to have stopped?
Thanks,
Brandon
On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 2:23 AM, Phil Elson pelson@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Brandon,
I notice that this is cross-posted on StackOverflow (
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13132194/type-1-fonts-with-log-graphs).
Personally, I have no problem with cross posting, but to save two people
having to answer the same question, I would make sure it was explicit that
this had also been posted elsewhere.
Thanks,
Phil
On 30 October 2012 03:13, Brandon Heller brand...@stanford.edu wrote:
Hi,
I'm trying to use Matplotlib graphs as part of a camera-ready
submission, and the publishing house requires the use of Type 1 fonts
only.
I'm finding that the PDF backend happily outputs Type-1 fonts for
simple graphs with linear Y axes, but outputs Type-3 fonts for
logarithmic Y axes.
Using a logarithmic yscale incurs the use of mathtext, which seems to
use Type 3 fonts, presumably because of the default use of exponential
notation. I can use an ugly hack to get around this - using
pyplot.yticks() to force the axis ticks to not use exponents - but
this would require moving the plot region to accommodate large labels
(like 10 ^ 6) or writing the axes as 10, 100, 1K, etc. so they fit.
There's a minimum working example below, which I've tested with the
matplotlib master branch as of today, as well as 1.1.1, which produces
the same behavior, so I don't know that this is a bug, probably just
unexpected behavior.
#!/usr/bin/env python
# Simple program to test for type 1 fonts.
# Generate a line graph w/linear and log Y axes.
from matplotlib import rc, rcParams
#rc('font',**{'family':'sans-serif','sans-serif':['Helvetica']})
# These lines are needed to get type-1 results:
#
http://nerdjusttyped.blogspot.com/2010/07/type-1-fonts-and-matplotlib-figures.html
rcParams['ps.useafm'] = True
rcParams['pdf.use14corefonts'] = True
rcParams['text.usetex'] = False
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
YSCALES = ['linear', 'log']
def plot(filename, yscale):
plt.figure(1)
xvals = range(1, 2)
yvals = xvals
plt.plot(xvals, yvals)
plt.yscale(yscale)
#YTICKS = [1, 10]
#plt.yticks(YTICKS, YTICKS) # locs, labels
ax = plt.gca()
#print ax.get_xticklabels()[0].get_text()
print ,.join([a.get_label() for a in ax.get_yticklabels()])
plt.savefig(filename + '.pdf')
if __name__ == '__main__':
for yscale in YSCALES:
plot('linegraph-' + yscale, yscale)
Does anyone know a clean way to get Type 1 fonts with log axes?
Thanks,
Brandon
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Re: [Matplotlib-users] Type 1 fonts with log graphs
On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 5:51 AM, Michael Droettboom md...@stsci.edu wrote:
There are a couple of alternative formatters for log scaling that don't
require mathtext.
You can do:
from matplotlib.tickers import LogFormatter, LogFormatterExponent
...
ax.xaxis.set_major_formatter(LogFormatter())
# or LogFormatterExponent(), which is just the exponent
To clarify the font issue. The PDF backend has no support for outputting
Type 1 fonts. There is an rcParam pdf.fonttype that allows you to choose
between Type 3 and Type 42 fonts, however. Type 3 stores each character as
a path and then uses those to put strings together. It supports font
subsetting, so an entire large font is not embedded in the file. Type 42
(essentially) just embeds a TrueType font in the file, and we don't support
subsetting there.
There is also the pdf.use14corefonts that will use the 14 built-in PDF
fonts whenever possible (and therefore not embed any fonts). However,
mathtext requires a special font for the math symbols, and thus it starts
to embed fonts.
You may try setting mathtext.default to regular, which will use the
font used as the default for the rest of the text first. This should have
the effect of not embedding any extra fonts in the file as long as you
don't use any special symbols in the math.
Hi Mike,
Thanks for the suggestions - I tried both. The first (use a LogFormatter)
yields only Type 1 but doesn't look look as good as exponential notation
(my style preference). The second (mathtext.default = regular) defaulted
to CMR and kept the exponents as Type 1, but not the helvetica used by the
rest of the graph. It used CMR even when I had set another font as the
default:
rc('font',**{'family':'sans-serif','sans-serif':['Helvetica']})
... so maybe I'm not setting the default properly. Any ideas there?
A suggestion from my colleague Vimal Kumar was to post-process the output
to replace Type3 w/Type 1:
sed -i.bak \
-e s/Type3/Type1/g \
-e s/BitstreamVeraSans-Roman/Helvetica/g \
-e s/DejaVuSans/Helvetica/g \
$file
This has the advantage that no mattext or tex is required, though I have to
assume the letter spacing is meant for the original font. In practice, the
only replaced fonts are on the Y axis, so even if the spacing between
letters seems a bit bigger, I don't think this is a huge issue. Of course,
it would still be nice to solve this problem in MPL itself, though.
Thanks,
Brandon
Mike
On 10/30/2012 05:23 AM, Phil Elson wrote:
Hi Brandon,
I notice that this is cross-posted on StackOverflow (
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13132194/type-1-fonts-with-log-graphs).
Personally, I have no problem with cross posting, but to save two people
having to answer the same question, I would make sure it was explicit that
this had also been posted elsewhere.
Thanks,
Phil
On 30 October 2012 03:13, Brandon Heller brand...@stanford.edu wrote:
Hi,
I'm trying to use Matplotlib graphs as part of a camera-ready
submission, and the publishing house requires the use of Type 1 fonts
only.
I'm finding that the PDF backend happily outputs Type-1 fonts for
simple graphs with linear Y axes, but outputs Type-3 fonts for
logarithmic Y axes.
Using a logarithmic yscale incurs the use of mathtext, which seems to
use Type 3 fonts, presumably because of the default use of exponential
notation. I can use an ugly hack to get around this - using
pyplot.yticks() to force the axis ticks to not use exponents - but
this would require moving the plot region to accommodate large labels
(like 10 ^ 6) or writing the axes as 10, 100, 1K, etc. so they fit.
There's a minimum working example below, which I've tested with the
matplotlib master branch as of today, as well as 1.1.1, which produces
the same behavior, so I don't know that this is a bug, probably just
unexpected behavior.
#!/usr/bin/env python
# Simple program to test for type 1 fonts.
# Generate a line graph w/linear and log Y axes.
from matplotlib import rc, rcParams
#rc('font',**{'family':'sans-serif','sans-serif':['Helvetica']})
# These lines are needed to get type-1 results:
#
http://nerdjusttyped.blogspot.com/2010/07/type-1-fonts-and-matplotlib-figures.html
rcParams['ps.useafm'] = True
rcParams['pdf.use14corefonts'] = True
rcParams['text.usetex'] = False
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
YSCALES = ['linear', 'log']
def plot(filename, yscale):
plt.figure(1)
xvals = range(1, 2)
yvals = xvals
plt.plot(xvals, yvals)
plt.yscale(yscale)
#YTICKS = [1, 10]
#plt.yticks(YTICKS, YTICKS) # locs, labels
ax = plt.gca()
#print ax.get_xticklabels()[0].get_text()
print ,.join([a.get_label() for a in ax.get_yticklabels()])
plt.savefig(filename + '.pdf')
if __name__ == '__main__':
for yscale in YSCALES:
plot('linegraph-' + yscale, yscale)
Does anyone know a clean way to get Type 1 fonts with log axes?
Thanks,
Re: [Matplotlib-users] Type 1 fonts with log graphs
On 10/30/2012 12:25 PM, Brandon Heller wrote:
Hi Phil,
Next time I'll be more explicit. I added the question to SA after I
tried to get a public link to my message and saw that archives past
July of this year seem to be missing. It wasn't clear that this list
was even still alive:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=matplotlib-users
Any idea why the archives seem to have stopped?
Thanks for pointing that out. I'm not sure what's wrong, but I'll look
into it.
Mike
Thanks,
Brandon
On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 2:23 AM, Phil Elson pelson@gmail.com
mailto:pelson@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Brandon,
I notice that this is cross-posted on StackOverflow
(http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13132194/type-1-fonts-with-log-graphs).
Personally, I have no problem with cross posting, but to save two
people having to answer the same question, I would make sure it
was explicit that this had also been posted elsewhere.
Thanks,
Phil
On 30 October 2012 03:13, Brandon Heller brand...@stanford.edu
mailto:brand...@stanford.edu wrote:
Hi,
I'm trying to use Matplotlib graphs as part of a camera-ready
submission, and the publishing house requires the use of Type
1 fonts
only.
I'm finding that the PDF backend happily outputs Type-1 fonts for
simple graphs with linear Y axes, but outputs Type-3 fonts for
logarithmic Y axes.
Using a logarithmic yscale incurs the use of mathtext, which
seems to
use Type 3 fonts, presumably because of the default use of
exponential
notation. I can use an ugly hack to get around this - using
pyplot.yticks() to force the axis ticks to not use exponents - but
this would require moving the plot region to accommodate large
labels
(like 10 ^ 6) or writing the axes as 10, 100, 1K, etc. so they
fit.
There's a minimum working example below, which I've tested
with the
matplotlib master branch as of today, as well as 1.1.1, which
produces
the same behavior, so I don't know that this is a bug,
probably just
unexpected behavior.
#!/usr/bin/env python
# Simple program to test for type 1 fonts.
# Generate a line graph w/linear and log Y axes.
from matplotlib import rc, rcParams
#rc('font',**{'family':'sans-serif','sans-serif':['Helvetica']})
# These lines are needed to get type-1 results:
#
http://nerdjusttyped.blogspot.com/2010/07/type-1-fonts-and-matplotlib-figures.html
rcParams['ps.useafm'] = True
rcParams['pdf.use14corefonts'] = True
rcParams['text.usetex'] = False
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
YSCALES = ['linear', 'log']
def plot(filename, yscale):
plt.figure(1)
xvals = range(1, 2)
yvals = xvals
plt.plot(xvals, yvals)
plt.yscale(yscale)
#YTICKS = [1, 10]
#plt.yticks(YTICKS, YTICKS) # locs, labels
ax = plt.gca()
#print ax.get_xticklabels()[0].get_text()
print ,.join([a.get_label() for a in ax.get_yticklabels()])
plt.savefig(filename + '.pdf')
if __name__ == '__main__':
for yscale in YSCALES:
plot('linegraph-' + yscale, yscale)
Does anyone know a clean way to get Type 1 fonts with log axes?
Thanks,
Brandon
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[Matplotlib-users] Type 1 fonts with log graphs
Hi,
I'm trying to use Matplotlib graphs as part of a camera-ready
submission, and the publishing house requires the use of Type 1 fonts
only.
I'm finding that the PDF backend happily outputs Type-1 fonts for
simple graphs with linear Y axes, but outputs Type-3 fonts for
logarithmic Y axes.
Using a logarithmic yscale incurs the use of mathtext, which seems to
use Type 3 fonts, presumably because of the default use of exponential
notation. I can use an ugly hack to get around this - using
pyplot.yticks() to force the axis ticks to not use exponents - but
this would require moving the plot region to accommodate large labels
(like 10 ^ 6) or writing the axes as 10, 100, 1K, etc. so they fit.
There's a minimum working example below, which I've tested with the
matplotlib master branch as of today, as well as 1.1.1, which produces
the same behavior, so I don't know that this is a bug, probably just
unexpected behavior.
#!/usr/bin/env python
# Simple program to test for type 1 fonts.
# Generate a line graph w/linear and log Y axes.
from matplotlib import rc, rcParams
#rc('font',**{'family':'sans-serif','sans-serif':['Helvetica']})
# These lines are needed to get type-1 results:
#
http://nerdjusttyped.blogspot.com/2010/07/type-1-fonts-and-matplotlib-figures.html
rcParams['ps.useafm'] = True
rcParams['pdf.use14corefonts'] = True
rcParams['text.usetex'] = False
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
YSCALES = ['linear', 'log']
def plot(filename, yscale):
plt.figure(1)
xvals = range(1, 2)
yvals = xvals
plt.plot(xvals, yvals)
plt.yscale(yscale)
#YTICKS = [1, 10]
#plt.yticks(YTICKS, YTICKS) # locs, labels
ax = plt.gca()
#print ax.get_xticklabels()[0].get_text()
print ,.join([a.get_label() for a in ax.get_yticklabels()])
plt.savefig(filename + '.pdf')
if __name__ == '__main__':
for yscale in YSCALES:
plot('linegraph-' + yscale, yscale)
Does anyone know a clean way to get Type 1 fonts with log axes?
Thanks,
Brandon
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