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Re: trouble with greek letter output to EPS

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  • Subject: [mg18569] Re: trouble with greek letter output to EPS
  • From: paulh at wolfram.com (P.J. Hinton)
  • Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 01:01:17 -0400
  • Organization: Wolfram Research, Inc.
  • References: <7m6igl$2g8@smc.vnet.net>
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In article <7m6igl$2g8 at smc.vnet.net>, "Chris Farr" <farr at brown.edu> writes:

> i have the greek letter theta in one of my graphs
> 
> i do a Display[..,...,"EPS"] to create an eps file
> 
> yet, the greek leter appears an an "q" instead of a "theta"
> 
> any help out there?

The EPS file uses Math1 to draw \[Theta].  What you're seeing is a
textbook example of a PostScript interpreter font substitution.
Your rendering device does not have access to the Type 1 version 
of Math1, so the interpreter draws a glyph with the same character
code using a substitute font like Courier.

The following diagnostics verify that this is the case.

In[1]:= ToCharacterCode["q", "ISO8859-1"]

Out[1]= {113}

In[2]:= ToCharacterCode["\[Theta]", "Math1"]

Out[2]= {113}

The fix is to make the Math1 font available to the rendering
device.  If the device is a Ghostscript-based application, like
Ghostview, gv, or GSView, you need to either set GS_FONTPATH
to include the path to the Type 1 Math fonts or edit your Fontmap
file accordingly.

http://support.wolfram.com/Graphics/Formats/EPS/Ghostscript.html

If your device is a printer, you will need to download the Type1
Math fonts into the printer's memory before doing the print job.
Instructions for doing this are available here.

http://support.wolfram.com/Systems/All/ManualFontDownload.html

You may also want to review your printer's documentation to see
if there are other options for retrieving non-built in fonts.

--
P.J. Hinton	
Mathematica Programming Group		paulh at wolfram.com
Wolfram Research, Inc.
Disclaimer: Opinions expressed herein are those of the author alone.


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