MMA to Illustrator
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- Subject: [mg240] MMA to Illustrator
- From: abraham at mail.ast.cam.ac.uk (Roberto Abraham)
- Date: Mon, 28 Nov 94 14:57 GMT
Hi Mathgroupers, This is a kind of hybrid Mathematica/Adobe Illustrator question, so I hope this is the right forum to be asking this stuff... I'm a new user of Adobe Illustrator (v.5.5 for the PowerMac), and I'm having some trouble exporting Mathematica graphics saved in my Mathematica (v.2.2.3 for the Mac) Notebooks into Illustrator format. I fear I may be doing something really stupid, since I'm having trouble on something that seems pretty basic. In order to export the graphs I've been copying the graphics into the clipboard and saving the clipboard in Illustrator format, which seems to work fine. However, when I open the saved file in Illustrator I find that data points do not appear, although the rest of the graph shows up fine (eg. the graph frame, labels, etc). The graphics I'm exporting are generally pretty simple graphs, created using ListPlot and GraphicsArray in Mathematica. Anyway, when I look at the graph in Illustrator's "Artwork" view (the preview mode), I can see the *locations* of the data points (there are tiny little dots there), but but the symbols for the points don't show up. Interestingly, error bars on points DO show up, although the points themselves don't. I've tried various things like moving the axes of the graph to the background plane of the drawing in case they're obscuring the points, with no luck. My only theory, which seems pretty dubious, is that somehow the graphics primitive used by Mathematica to draw data points is not being correctly translated into Illustrator format. Has anyone else been having this problem, and does anyone have any suggestions with regard to fixing this problem? Since I need to actually edit the graphs (as opposed to just scale them and move them around), exporting them in encapsulated postscript from Mathematica isn't really an option. Many thanks, Bob Abraham abraham at mail.ast.cam.ac.uk Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge University