[OS X TeX] Mathematica fonts in graphics
Ross Moore
ross at maths.mq.edu.au
Tue Aug 31 12:03:00 CEST 2004
On 31/08/2004, at 6:38 PM, Maarten Sneep wrote:
> On 31 aug 2004, at 1:53, Bruno Voisin wrote:
>
>> Maarten: I haven't tried your solution yet, due to one warning from
>> the dvips doc, saying (in essence) EPS files created in this way
>> (i.e. "dvips -E") are resolution-dependent and should be used mostly
>> as a last-resort solution. Did you experience this limitation, or is
>> it immaterial?
>
> Afaik this only applies if you use bit-mapped cm fonts, I _think_ the
> documentation is a bit out of touch with reality. OTOH, if you produce
> them at the size you are going to use them, no further scaling is
I agree with this assessment.
I've been using dvips -E for *years* with LaTeX2HTML and .pfa or .pfb
fonts
to make images for web-pages. The results are great.
So the dependence on resolution is only an issue when using bitmapped
fonts.
If the fonts are scaleable, then resolution issues should only occur at
the
*next* (Ghostscript) step, and even then, only if Ghostscript is being
asked
to produce a bitmapped image.
Hope this helps,
Ross
> needed, and the letters are included in resolution independent type-1
> fonts anyway. So the docs make it more of a problem than it really is.
> (the point is that dvip may round the _position_ of letters to fall on
> the grid. With bitmapped fonts this makes sense.
>
> [snip]
>
>> Gary: Sorry, I haven't tried WARMReader yet. I had been under the
>> impression that it required essentially manual intervention, whereas
>> I was looking for an automated procedure, replacing tags (for
>> examples axes ticks) and fonts inserted by Mathematica by another
>> font, but keeping the horizontal and vertical positioning etc. In any
>> case I should try, that's true.
>
> In that case: try psfrag, combined with the dvips -E trick. It has
> worked for me with great results in the past. At least the positioning
> is more or less automatic. Contact me off-list if you want to receive
> a sample.
>
> Maarten
>
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