Re: Trouble importing Mathematica EPS files into Deneba Canvas
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- Subject: [mg43481] Re: Trouble importing Mathematica EPS files into Deneba Canvas
- From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
- Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 05:38:43 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: Universitaet Leipzig
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Hi, try pstoedit from http://www.pstoedit.net/pstoedit Regards Jens Kevin Gross wrote: > > Hi all, > > I am trying to annotate some 2D plots made in Mathematica 5.0 (Mac OS > X). I exported the plot as EPS. However, when I import it into > Canvas 9, a few of the fonts are messed up. For example, what is > supposed to be a bold parenthesis "(" appears as a radical sign. I > can't decide if this is a Mathematica problem or a Canvas problem. > > A few observations: > > * Canvas does have access to the Mathematica-specific fonts, such as > Mathematica2. However, when I type "(" using the Mathematica2 font > within a Canvas text field, I get the same radical sign which appears > when importing the 2D plot. > > * I tried exporting the EPS file with and without the embedded > Mathematica fonts. Still had the same result. > > * I can convert the EPS file to PDF using ghostscript and it looks > great using Adobe Acrobat 6 and Preview.app - all fonts are scalable, > not bitmapped. > > * If I use the tool "eps2eps" on the EPS file, some of the fonts, e.g. > the "(", are rasterized while others are preserved as outline fonts. > I'd rather not use bitmap versions of the fonts as I intend to scale > up the plot considerably. (eps2eps is part of the ghostscript > collection of tools and will essentially clean up an EPS file) > > * The same problem occurs when importing the ghostscript-converted PDF > file into Canvas. > > * You can look at the "problematic" EPS and PDF files here: > http://kc144.dyndns.org/~kevin/temp.eps > http://kc144.dyndns.org/~kevin/temp.pdf > > Thanks, > > Kevin > -- > Kevin Gross > Ph.D. Student > Air Force Institute of Technology > Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio