When I make a plot, and export it in postscript (or eps), often I like to modify it in Adobe Illustrator. However, the fonts that maplotlib produces seem to be postscript representations of the actual fonts. That is, Illustrator does not recognize the text as text, but as some object (that is, of course, shaped like text).
How do I make matplotlib export images with text that is recognizable and editable in Illustrator?
-Rob.
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Postscript output, by default, does export text as fonts. So I am guessing
that you are using mpl's latex support, which unfortunately does convert
fonts to outlines. It is a deficiency with ghostscript, not mpl. There is a
hack to get around this, which is published at
http://www.scipy.org/wikis/topical_software/UsingTex. The only other
alternative at the moment is to set usetex=False in your RC file.
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On Monday 31 October 2005 3:13 pm, Robert Hetland wrote:
When I make a plot, and export it in postscript (or eps), often I
like to modify it in Adobe Illustrator. However, the fonts that
maplotlib produces seem to be postscript representations of the
actual fonts. That is, Illustrator does not recognize the text as
text, but as some object (that is, of course, shaped like text).
How do I make matplotlib export images with text that is recognizable
and editable in Illustrator?