Postscript Camera-Ready Copy (from Nicholas Georgakopoulos)
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- Subject: [mg48987] Postscript Camera-Ready Copy (from Nicholas Georgakopoulos)
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- Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 17:52:34 -0400 (EDT)
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Dear all: Help: How can I give to a publisher a Word file with graphics that use Times-Roman and do not have jagged curves? I am trying to provide the publisher of a book of mine with "camera ready copy". This, seems to mean in the language of typesetters that they will print my file on their high-definition printers and then produce the book from the resulting printout, without typesetting it again. The text of the book is in Word and, so far, the graphics are imported from Mathematica 4.1. When I print it on my printer the text looks great, but the graphics suffer. From Mathematica, I export the graphics to a file by using the metafile format: Display[ filename, graphicname, "Metafile", options ] . Here, if I had not turned it Off[], Mathematica would warn me with the error message "Display::pserr" that it is substituting the Utopia font for Times-Roman. Then, in Word, I use the menu /import /picture /from file. I have written a macro in Word that loops through all boxes in the graphic and changes any Utopia fonts to Times-Roman, which partly cures the font substitution problem. However, the curves remain jagged. Also, if a graphic has text that has mathematical symbols that should line up with the textual symbols, they do not. I searched the archives and it seems that I cannot avoid this substitution unless I find Times-Roman "type 1"(?) font definitions to convert and add, something that seems daunting. The font of the graphics for the book must be Times-Roman, however. One more important defect in the graphics is that curves are jagged, while I would have liked a postscript definition of a curving line that would be rendered with the resolution of the high-definition printer. Lesser problems are that dashing lines and dots are memory hogs, because they are exported as multiple elements. Each segment of the dashing line is a line, and each dot is composed of numerous smaller dots while I would have liked a single line defined as dashing, and a single point, with the specified size. It might be relevant for me to say that during a re-installation of Mathematica, I received an error warning, "InstallFonts". It sounds as if this might mean that I could change an option in the preferences notebook (but not the location of the font files; that location is correct as specified in the Preferences notebook!). Perhaps the change would point to some font-related tool that might solve the font-substitution problem. Perhaps Mathematica 5 does not have these problems, in which case I will upgrade in a heartbeat. Then again, perhaps my new installation was not truly a clean one because traces of previous installations of Mathematica remained in the Registry. I did try to rename all folders named "Mathematica" to "Mathematica_Old" but maybe that was not enough either. Help! Solutions? Any work-arounds? Thanks. Please copy answers to me directly at the address below. The auto-reply address is spam-avoiding fiction. Nicholas ngeorgak at iupui dot edu