[pstricks] Transparency and Fonts

[Christopher Ellison]

Attached is an exported version of a picture I made with corel draw.  I 
was hoping to use psfrag to replace the fonts, but it doesn't work quite 
right.

When I do
\psfrag{ni}[][]{$-i$}

The text is correctly replaced, but corel draw additionally stored the 
font as a graphic as well.  That is, the fonts that were shaded (due to 
transparency) were included in the EPS file as graphics and fonts.  So 
when I used psfrag, all the text was replaced correctly, but there was 
an additional graphic.  Please see the second attachment: sigmavector2.gif.

Anyway, it seems like this probably isn't going to work.  Perhaps 
someone has an idea about this.

Is there a way to create this drawing with pstricks?  Any help would be 
greatly appreciated.

SVG supports transparency...my problem seems to be created when I export 
to EPS...is that because EPS doesn't support transparency?  If I could 
include svg files in my latex documents, would this fix my problem?  Is 
there any solution that allows one to use SVG files instead of EPS files 
as graphics...and subsequently, to replace text in those SVG files with 
latex text?

Thanks,
Chris
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