[OS X TeX] PDF from LaTeX and Adobe Illustrator

[Aaron Jackson]

On Jun 30, 2005, at 11:03 AM, Gary L. Gray wrote:

>
> On Jun 30, 2005, at 5:58 AM, Herbert Schulz wrote:
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>
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>> On Jun 30, 2005, at 4:35 AM, Pierre Chatelier wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Some users of LaTeXiT has reported me that when you drag'n drop a 
>>> PDF equation generated by pdfLaTeX to Adobe Illustrator, then 
>>> Illustrator does not consider it as a mere image, but on the 
>>> contrary recognized the symbols, and unfortunately replace them 
>>> using another (ugly) font.
>>> I have installed the Illustrator tryout version, and I could see 
>>> that by myself.
>>> Do you think there is any latex option that could be used at pdf 
>>> generation, to get rid of this problem ?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Pierre Chatelier
>>>
>>> PS : I hope this mail is plain text, since I used the <convert to 
>>> Text> (Shift-Command-T)  command of Apple's Mail app.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Howdy,
>>
>> That has been a problem with Illustrator for a long time. I'm still 
>> at Illustrator 10 so I can't comment on 11 or CS or whatever it's 
>> called now.
>>
>> The only real solution I've seen is to use WARMreader + WarmFigToPDF 
>> which works nicely.
>>
>
> A description of how to use the WARMreader + WARMFigToPDF can be found 
> at:
>
> <http://www.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/wftpdf/>
>
> I will try and answer any questions you might have.
>
> We have been using this approach to label figures for about three 
> years. It works very well, is very fast once you done a few figures, 
> and it makes it trivial to change fonts, notation, etc. should you 
> choose to do so (just re-typeset with the appropriate changes to the 
> preamble).
>
> I hope this helps.

Wow, that seems like a lot of work!  I don't mean to turn this into a 
"my work flow is better than yours" discussion and this is floating of 
topic, but it seems that gnuplot can do everything you need and the 
output is a combination of LaTeX and eps...

Aaron

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