Re: Annotating Mathematica EPS files with Illustrator
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- Subject: [mg46555] Re: Annotating Mathematica EPS files with Illustrator
- From: "Joshua A. Solomon" <J.A.Solomon at city.ac.uk>
- Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 22:33:37 -0500 (EST)
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The Classic version of PageMaker works nicely. PowerPoint too. js On 21/2/04 4:10 am, in article c16ln5$5n3$1 at smc.vnet.net, "Kevin Gross" <kc144 at woh.rr.com> wrote: > Hi folks, > > I know that some of you annotate Mathematica EPS graphics using Adobe > Illustrator. How are you able to do that while > (1) using the Mathematica fonts and font combinations (e.g. the greek > letter nu with a tilde on top, i.e. from the front end, type <ESC> nu > <ESC> <CTRL 7> ~) > (2) automatically preserving the bounding box info? > > I'm looking for any tips that can be used to have Mathematica output a > high-quality EPS file that can be imported by and annotated in > Illustrator and subsequently conversion to PDF. I obtained > Illustrator and Distiller for this purpose, but the long story below > details my unsuccessful trip down this path. > > Thanks, > > Kevin > > ---The long story--- > Mathematica 5 on Mac OSX (10.3.2) > Adobe Illustrator CS (11.0) > Adobe Distiller (6.0.1) > > I exported a Mathematica graphic as an EPS file with the fonts > embedded, which can be found here: > <http://kc144.dyndns.org/~kevin/plot-FontIncl.eps.gz> > It was converted to PDF using Preview.app (image viewer that ships w/ > OSX) and is found here: > <http://kc144.dyndns.org/~kevin/plot-FontIncl.pdf> > > I can open the EPS file using Illustrator, but parentheses, minus > signs and greek text don't show up properly. This seems odd as > Illustrator can see the Mathematica fonts. (For those who speak Mac > OSX: Mathematica.dfont installed in ~/Library/Fonts and the fonts are > accessible from within Illustrator). Opening the PDF is slightly > better, but nu with a tilde on top shows up as a question mark. > > Then I thought Illustrator would be happy if it opened up a PDF > created by its cousin Distiller. The resulting PDF file has the right > fonts, but now the bounding box is wrong. I'm using the Standard > presets for Distiller which, according to the documentation, uses the > %%BoundingBox comment to determine the page size of the PDF. Opening > this PDF in Illustrator still gives a question mark for the nu with a > tilde on top. > > I also tried the same excercise but with an EPS file that did not > include the Mathematica fonts. Import to Illustrator resulted in > Courier being substituted for many characters. Why when it can see > the Mathematica fonts? Distiller correctly picks up the Mathematica fonts but > still > has the bounding box issue and nu-tilde still shows up as a question > mark. ARG! > > And even if I get this font problem resolved, it looks as if I'll need > to manually set the page dimensions from within Illustrator. I assumed > that by opening the EPS file, the canvas size would be automatically > set to what was in the %%BoundingBox comment. > > So is this a problem with the Mathematica-generated postscript file or > did the Adobe, the authors of postscript, supply flakey PS parsers in > their Illustrator and Distiller programs? Or have I completely missed > something? >