Hi Oren,
The link below leads to a recent related thread on this list. Maybe it will be informative. I believe it implies that the answer is No, you have to use TeX.
http://matplotlib.1069221.n5.nabble.com/Editable-text-from-matplotlib-td44219.html
-Jeff
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On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 11:40 AM, Paul Hobson <pmhobson@...287...> wrote:
What happens when you save as a postscript file with matplotlib.rcParams["text.usetex"] = False?
-paul
On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 7:11 AM, Oren <oren.a4@...287...> wrote:
Anyone know how to solve this thing?
Thanks.
On 2 November 2014 03:40, oren <oren.a4@...287...> wrote:
How can I save a matplotlib figure with text as a postscript image and that
the text will be saved as text. Currently when I save the image as
postscript all the text in the image ( xlabel, ylabel etc.. ) is saved as
path and not as text.. Is it possible to save it as text?
If I use the following code ( use latex)
matplotlib.rcParams["text.usetex"] = True
and save the image as postscript the text is saved as text.. But I do not
want to use latex.. Is it possible without latex?
Thanks
Question also on stackoverflow
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26649266/matplotlib-save-image-as-postscript-when-xlabel-is-saved-as-text-and-not-path