[OS X TeX] Font problem

[George Gratzer]

My golly, it works.

By the way, I do not as a rule want a whole document, just the  
formula I want to copy into an illustration. when I write a LaTeX  
book, I want the whole page.

Thank you for your help.

GG

On Dec 18, 2005, at 10:39 AM, Jens Nöckel wrote:

>
> On Dec 18, 2005, at 1:40 AM, Axel E. Retif wrote:
>
>> On Dec 17, 2005, at 8:53 PM, George Gratzer wrote:
>>
>>> P.S. If I do this with Textures, everything is perfect.
>>>
>>> GG
>>>
>>> On Dec 17, 2005, at 6:55 PM, Peter Dyballa wrote:
>>>
>>>> Am 18.12.2005 um 01:39 schrieb George Gratzer:
>>>>
>>>>> I opened the pdf file with Illustrator and it complained that  
>>>>> the Nimbus fonts are used so it makes a substitution, messing  
>>>>> up the formulas....
>>>>
>>>> The LOG file does not mention any Nimbus fonts (you can see that  
>>>> too at its end). Can programmes lie? Anyway, I'm going to bed now!
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Greetings
>>>>
>>>>   Pete
>>
>>
>> Anayway, I have typeset your amsart file, opened it with Acrobat  
>> (6) and Illustrator (11), and there are no Times or Nimbus fonts,  
>> just Computer Modern and AMS fonts. They will get substituted,  
>> though, unless you have CM fonts were Illustrator can find them (~/ 
>> Library/fonts/, for example*). I think the best are the TeX- 
>> Illustrator fonts, which you can find in
>>
>> http://www.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/editorsX.shtml
>>
>> Nevertheless, even with these, \mid and \ldots come out wrong in  
>> Illustrator.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Axel
>>
>> *After installing the fonts, you have to log out and log back in  
>> or restart.
>>
>
> Yes, those CM fonts don't work too well if you want to read a  
> complete document into Illustrator. Since Textures seemed to work  
> for George, I'm guessing that it uses the steps latex -> dvipdf  
> instead of pdflatex. For use with Illustrator, I found latex and  
> dvipdf or dvips give better results. I usually only care about  
> reading short LaTeX output into Illustrator, not whole articles.
>
> With a large document, there are so many different fonts mixed  
> together that it is perhaps best to do something entirely different  
> before reading it into Illustrator: here is what I do with  
> Mathematica graphics, and it also works with pdflatex output:  
> assume you have generated a file Myfile.pdf, then run the command
>
> gs -sDEVICE=pswrite -dNOCACHE -sOutputFile=nofont-Myfile.ps -q - 
> dbatch -dNOPAUSE Myfile.pdf -c quit
>
> It strips away the included fonts and puts the result in a file  
> nofont-Myfile.ps which you can then open in Illustrator.  
> Illustrator then converts all your exotic (and not-so-exotic) text  
> into vector outlines which makes everything look just as nice as  
> the original.
> Just as with CM fonts, you cannot really edit the text in  
> Illustratotor using the type tool, but everything is there as  
> graphics objects. Depending on what you plan to do, this may be an  
> acceptable tradeoff that avoids all those font headaches.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jens
>
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