MMA/postscript/Textures
- To: mathgroup at yoda.physics.unc.edu
- Subject: MMA/postscript/Textures
- From: gray at cmgroup.engr.wisc.edu (Gary L. Gray)
- Date: Sat, 8 Aug 92 01:11:06 CDT
Dear MathGroupers: I need some information and advice from people knowledgeable about exporting postscript graphics from Mathematica. I use Mathematica 2.0 on the Macintosh and I generate a lot of postscript graphics that I put in publications. I want to be able to add labels, arrows, and other descriptive additions to the postscript graphics. I haven't been able to do it all in Mathematica so I have been importing the file to Canvas 3.0, making the additions in PICT, and then exporting that PICT/postscript file to Textures (TeX/LaTeX for the Mac). The problem is that Textures does not handle the PICT part from Canvas very well and often doesn't print all of the PICT additions. The makers of Textures have told me that I can't expect any better from PICT and they said I should be using a postscript graphics program such as Adobe Illustrator or Aldus Freehand (By the way, Textures is an unbeatable implemention of TeX on any platform.). Here are the questions: Does anyone have experience with using either of those programs in the way I want to use them? Can either of them import Mathematica EPSF files and if so, which handles it better? Can I easily make additions (not changes) and then export the file (save it to the disk) as EPSF for Textures to import when typesetting? Any information and advice would be greatly appreciated. If I get a huge response, I will compile the results and post them at sumex-aim.stanford.edu. Thank you in advance. ************************************** Gary L. Gray Engineering Mechanics and Astronautics University of Wisconsin-Madison Internet: gray at cmgroup.engr.wisc.edu AOL: GLGray **************************************