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Generating PDF figures with correct fonts in Mac OS X

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg54971] Generating PDF figures with correct fonts in Mac OS X
• From: gdelfino at gmail.com
• Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 05:04:10 -0500 (EST)
• Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

As I spent a few hours figuring out how to do this, I will share what I
learned:

g=Plot[Sin[x],{x,0,3}];

Show[
    g,
    DisplayFunction ->
        (Display["!epstopdf -f
-o=/Users/yourlogin/Desktop/filename.pdf",
        #1,
        "EPS", ImageSize -> 12*72]&)
];

epstopdf is an external program. To be able to call it, it must be in
your path. And your path is not really your .profile path. Instead it
is the result of:

Environment["PATH"]

which is

/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/Users/yourlogin

epstopdf is normally located at

/usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/epstopdf

So you could call it directly, but that wouldn't work because epstopdf
need to call gs and gs is at /usr/local/bin/gs which is not in the
path.

My solution is just to create symbolic links to gs and epstopdf an my
home directory:

cd
ln -s /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/epstopdf
epstopdf
ln -s /usr/local/bin/gs gs

Now it works beautifully.

Regards,

Gustavo Delfino
Caracs, Venezuela.