Re: Export PDF plot or Save Selection As -- big troubles with
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- Subject: [mg89999] Re: Export PDF plot or Save Selection As -- big troubles with
- From: ragfield <ragfield at gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 04:41:21 -0400 (EDT)
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On Jun 25, 5:33 am, AES <sieg... at stanford.edu> wrote: > Create a combined Plot/ListPlot in 6 using Show having some lines with > their Thickness[] increased, some points with their PointSize[] > increased. > > Export plot as PDF or Select either the plot itself or the complete cell > and Save As Selection. Open saved file in Acrobat; it looks fine (though > document size is not what I want; it's just big enough to enclose the > plot, and I'd like letter size). Save Selection As > PDF will create a PDF file with a tight bounding box around the selection. Save As > PDF will create a PDF file whose size matches your selected paper size. > Open same file in Illustrator CS 11.0.0 on Mac (only way I know to > change document or artboard size of a PDF file). Plot looks horrible: > Line thicknesses are hugely thickened (though axes and frame seem OK); > point sizes, oddly, seem OK; text size for tick labelsseems shrunken. > > Any idea what's happening here??? Seems fair to call this a bug -- > somebody's not doing right by the PDF format. But, an Adobe bug or a > Wolfram bug? Given that it looks correct in Acrobat, and given Illustrator's history of bugs rendering perfectly valid EPS, I would guess this is an Illustrator bug. You could also try viewing the file in Preview or Ghostscript for more comparisons. -Rob