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Re: eps exports with dashes in them (important - to me, anyway)

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg73008] Re: eps exports with dashes in them (important - to me, anyway)
• From: "Chris Chiasson" <chris at chiasson.name>
• Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 01:40:00 -0500 (EST)
• References: <acbec1a40701251524k34255d3dyfea63aac9d10c52a@mail.gmail.com>

Thanks for the reply.

FontType->Outline didn't help. It appears that even though my
$FrontEnd AbsoluteOptions have FontType->Bitmap by default, that
Export generates the EPS using FontType->Outline. In fact, when I
change your command to say "FontType"->"Bitmap" the fraction bar and
the square root "roof" become solid (not dashed) and blocky/ugly.

I put my FontType->Bitmap result up at

http://test.chris.chiasson.name/Mathematica/

as windows_BMP.eps, along with some files that give the contents of my
C:\Windows\Fonts directory before and after the install of MS Office
(and, no, its install didn't affect the EPS dashing, AFAIK).

Unfortunately, I don't have a before/after directory listing for the
installation of the MathML fonts for Firefox. However, the presence of
the "EPS dashing" appears to be unrelated to the MathML fonts because
I have had all four possible combinations of "ML fonts present
(yes/no)" & "EPS dashing (yes/no)" on this same computer.

I wish I knew what changed in the days between my last generation of a
correct EPS and the first generation of an incorrect EPS (at that
point, I hadn't reinstalled anything). I did change some of the
services that ran in Windows, so I though that might be the cause.
Before I reinstalled by using my OEM image, I spent a long time
switching services on and off to see if I could find a service (or
lack thereof) that fixed the EPS dashing problem. I didn't find one. I
was also really surprised when I encountered the same problem in
Mathematica that I had before the re-install.

P.S. There appears to be an unusually large jump in Magnification when
moving between these two settings:

SetOptions[$FrontEnd,Magnification->1.20833331]
SetOptions[$FrontEnd,Magnification->1.20833332]


On 1/27/07, ragfield <ragfield at gmail.com> wrote:
> Chris, my reply to the list didn't appear to make it through:
>
> Have you installed or removed any fonts (or applications which may
> contain fonts) that may have caused the change in behavior?  You can
> alter the appearance by explicitly specifying "FontType"->"Outline":
>
> Export["~/Desktop/test.eps", StyleBox[ToBoxes@Sqrt[21/x],
>    PrivateFontOptions -> {"FontType" -> "Outline"}]]
>
> This problem will be fixed in a future release of Mathematica.
>
> -Rob
> Wolfram Research
>
>


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