Re: eps exports with dashes in them (important - to me, anyway)
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- 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 > > -- http://chris.chiasson.name/