Re: Wacky Font Substitution in .eps Export
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- Subject: [mg90597] Re: Wacky Font Substitution in .eps Export
- From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
- Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 06:17:30 -0400 (EDT)
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Hi,
brackets come from the Mathematica2 font. You can embedded the fonts
via an option to Export[]
And when you wish to edit the graphics later wih CorelDraw or Adobe
Illustrator you should use the pdf-format.
Regards
Jens
jfuite at phys.ualberta.ca wrote:
> Dear Mathematica Adepts,
>
> I am creating some graphics for Export to an .eps file. It seems that
> font embedding is an issue discussed in the past on the forums. What
> about suprious font substitutions?
>
> The following statement produces the expected simple graphic:
>
> Show@Graphics[{Text["abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz1234567890\nABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ!
> @#$%^&*()",{0,0},TextStyle->{FontFamily->"Times"}]}].
>
> It is sort of a sample of the keyboard, all in, one would expect, the
> common font, "Times".
>
> When this graphic is passed through the function, Export, as an .eps
> file, Export["deleteMe.eps", %], and opened in any other program, then
> some of the common special characters are missing, with blanks in
> their place:
>
> abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz1234567890
> ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ #$%^& .
>
> At least one of the programs complained about a missing Mathematica
> font. But why is a Mathematica font being used when I asked for
> Times? How can I work around this? I especially want to use brackets
> in graphics.
>
> Thanks for any advice in advance.
>