Re: Problem rendering Mathematica fonts in eps and pdf files.
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- Subject: [mg38486] Re: Problem rendering Mathematica fonts in eps and pdf files.
- From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
- Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 04:24:32 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: Universitaet Leipzig
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Hi, can you send me the files direct ? Ron wrote: > > 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. Don't use the pdf-export, it make no crop box and you graphics fill the whole page .. > > 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 The gsview version does not matter because it only call ghostscript to do the work ... > > 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 That's a fairly old ghostscript -- AFAIK 7.04 is current .. > > 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 ? Fonts are *not* a part of en EPS file. Fonts should be never in EPS file. > > 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 ? Too large for your page ? > 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 ? If you TeX system is correct configured it *is* a simple routine task and I would realy know what you are doing wrong. Regards Jens