[OS X TeX] Alternative Method of Labeling Figures with Illustrator

[Jung-Tsung Shen]

On 6/26/06, William Adams <will.adams at frycomm.com> wrote:
> On Jun 26, 2006, at 1:10 PM, Gary L. Gray wrote:
>
> > One more thing. I would also be concerned about the fact that it
> > did not work in one of your tests. You have to ask yourself, when
> > will this happen again? :-)
>
> In my own experiments, what did and didn't work with that technique
> was pretty consistent --- seems to be specific characters which don't
> get handled right --- a sufficient quantity that it wasn't useful in
> any project I was able to consider it for.
>
> William
>

There actually is one situation that this method is appealing: when
you have a very complicated figure and that your computer is not that
powerful.

I encountered this situation myself not too long ago. I have a figure
generated by Mathematica. The size of the EPS was 12 MB. Even though I
managed to have it shrunk to ~3MB, it was still very difficult to
manage for my poor PowerBook. Each time it spent a long long time to
draw the results on my screen when processed. This new method however
has one less step and indeed saved me some time (whether my time was
meaningful or not is out of the question. :P )

JT
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