DisplayTogether, multiple ListPlots, compound paths, and Illustrator/EPS problems
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- Subject: [mg49549] DisplayTogether, multiple ListPlots, compound paths, and Illustrator/EPS problems
- From: AES/newspost <siegman at stanford.edu>
- Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 05:59:39 -0400 (EDT)
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For various reasons, I like to generate plots with multiple curves and
points using DisplayTogether rather than, for example, MultipleListPlot.
(DisplayTogether allows one to combine Plots, ParametricPlots,
ListPlots, and so on, all into one graphic, while keeping the generation
and editing of each plot separate; and it generally seems to work well.)
There's one minor glitch that's come up, however, which I'll report here
just for the record.
My practice is to Export the resulting plots as EPS files, then touch
them up with Illustrator (9.0 on Mac OS 9.2).
Recently in doing this I discovered that three curves in a certain
graphic, originally generated by three separate ListPlots each with
PlotJoined->True, seemed to be inextricably linked in the resulting
Illustrator graphic. I wanted them to be different colors and weights,
but even though I could select the individual lines separately in
Illustrator, any changes made to one of them seemed to be unavoidably
applied to all of them, and nothing I could do seemed to unlink them, or
UnGroup them in Illustrator jargon.
The cure (obtained from another NG) was a somewhat obscure and not at
all well-documented Illustrator command, namely select all three lines
(they're actually Compound Paths in Illustrator jargon) and activate the
menu command
Object->Paths->Compound path->Release
After that they were fully separated and separately editable.