Re: Mathematica exports curves in pieces to Illustrator
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg45404] Re: Mathematica exports curves in pieces to Illustrator
- From: Selwyn Hollis <sh2.7183 at misspelled.erthlink.net>
- Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 04:17:08 -0500 (EST)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
David, I've used Macromedia Freehand for years, but I'm planning to switch to Adobe Illustrator. (You can find full information and download a 30-day trial version at www.adobe.com.) An application of that type is really indispensable in a number of ways. You can easily touch up Mathematica-generated graphics to get effects that would take a great deal of effort to get in Mathematica, if possible at all. (Anti-aliasing and color adjustments come to mind.) Moreover, technical drawings are quite easy to produce once you get used to things. ----- Selwyn Hollis http://www.math.armstrong.edu/faculty/hollis (edit reply-to to reply) On Jan 5, 2004, at 3:50 AM, David Park wrote: > Yas, > > I have often wondered about programs that would take Mathematica plot > output > and allow improvements to be made on the plots. What programs are > available, > what will they do for you and roughly how much do they cost? How well > do > they work with 3D graphics? Are they worth it? > > One of the things I don't like about Mathematica 3D graphics is the > poor > rendering. There are often extra lines and spots that shouldn't appear > in > the graphics. Do programs like Illustrator solve these problems? When > I look > at some of the sample 3D plots on the WRI web site, they look as if > they had > been run through an auxiliary program. > > David Park > djmp at earthlink.net > http://home.earthlink.net/~djmp/ > > From: Yasvir Tesiram [mailto:tesiramy at omrf.ouhsc.edu] To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net > To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net > > Hi, > I usually Ungroup the entire graphic and you can use > Shift+ObjectSelect > in Illustrator to select common graphics objects within the main > graphic. > Alternately, you can use Prolog and Epilog to render graphics in > order, in > Mathematica, which should convert to EPS accordinly. But I have only > tried > this once or twice and I think I came to the conclusion that it was > more a > hassle than anything. > > Yas > > On Fri, 2 Jan 2004 Mattiephly at hotmail.com wrote: > >> Hello. I use Mathematica to generate plots in EPS files, and then I >> use Adobe Illustrator to edit the EPS files. Here's my problem: I >> plot y = x^2 and open the EPS file in Illustrator, but when I click on >> the curve, Illustrator only highlights (selects) a piece of the >> parabola (and not the entire parabola). Sometimes it even selects a >> piece of the curve and a piece of an axis, but I cannot select just >> the curve, or just an axis. I've posted a similar question on the >> Adobe Forums, but with little success. >> >> Any suggestions? I appreciate any help that's out there. >> >> Thanks a lot, >> R >> > > >