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Problem rendering Mathematica fonts in eps and pdf files.

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  • Subject: [mg38467] Problem rendering Mathematica fonts in eps and pdf files.
  • From: rontemp2003 at yahoo.com (Ron)
  • Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 01:53:59 -0500 (EST)
  • Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

I have a graphic produced in Mathematica which I would like to call from a
Latex document to be ultimately viewed as a ps and/or pdf file. The
final file produced however, does not render the Mathematica fonts
satisfactorily if at all.

First I generate the files graphic.eps and graphics.pdf using the
Export command.

The following (separate) attempts all have no effect in rendering the
Mathematica fonts when trying to view the files graphic.eps or graphic.pdf.

1. Instruct the ps viewer (GSVIEW32 Version 3.6) to see the Mathematica fonts
by adding to the "ghostscript include path" the directory C:\Program
Files\Wolfram Research\Mathematica\4.2\SystemFiles\Fonts\Type1

2. Append directives (supplied by P.J. Hinton) to the file Fontmap (
C:\Program Files\ghostscript\gs6.50\lib) to enable Mathematica fonts to be
seen as suggested by Mathematica support at
http://support.wolfram.com/mathematica/graphics/export/ghostscript.html

3. Copy the Mathematica fonts (C:\Program Files\Wolfram
Research\Mathematica\4.2\SystemFiles\Fonts\Type1) into C:\Program
Files\ghostscript\fonts to enable them to be seen.

I have also tried selecting the graphic and then printing to the file
graphic.eps. This *does* seems to embed the fonts in resulting
graphic.eps.I can then use the ps viewer to convert this file
graphic.eps into graphic.pdf. The graphic.eps file turns out fine but
the graphic.pdf file when viewed generates an error ("The font
'YWFNOL+TT9Co00' contains a bad /BBox") and also the Mathematica fonts are
rendered but with a markedly lighter font weight ?

Furthemore when I call these files in a latex document using
\includegraphics[scale=0.85]{graphic.eps}
( \includegraphics[scale=0.85]{graphic.pdf} )

the graphic does not appear at all in the resulting ps (pdf) file ?
They *do* appear however,if they were generated using the Export
command although as mentioned previously in this case the fonts are
all stuffed up !?


I have wasted some time trying to do what I imagine should be a simple
and routine task - Is there something obvious I am missing here ?

Thanks in advance for any pointers.
Ron.

Software Versions used:

Mathematica 4.2
Windows 2000
GSVIEW32 Version 3.6
AcrobatReader 5.2
MiKTeX 2.2
Preamble in Latex document calls:
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{amsmath}



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