Re: [matplotlib-devel] Produce text runs in the postscript backend

2015-02-19 Thread Benjamin Root
I would be +1 on this as well. Various command-line text extraction tools are near useless with the current state. On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 9:42 AM, Benjamin Reedlunn wrote: > I am in favor of such a change. I also have rcParams['pdf.fonttype'] = > 42, so I can use Adobe Illustrator to tweak my

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Produce text runs in the postscript backend

2015-02-19 Thread Benjamin Reedlunn
I am in favor of such a change. I also have rcParams['pdf.fonttype'] = 42, so I can use Adobe Illustrator to tweak my mpl generated plots. Changing a word in Illustrator becomes quite a pain when every glyph is a separate text box. -Ben Reedlunn On Feb 18, 2015, at 8:52 AM, Eric Moore wrote

[matplotlib-devel] Produce text runs in the postscript backend

2015-02-18 Thread Eric Moore
Hi, I posted on the user list a while back about saving editable text using the postscript backend [1]. There I was informed that this was changed a few years ago to individually place glyphs. It looks to me, that this change was about correctly supporting unicode in this backend [2]. Would the