Re: [Matplotlib-users] postscript fonts: examples in matplotlib

You can set the rcParam "ps.useafm" to True, which will use the built-in 
Postscript fonts (and not embed any in the file), or set "ps.fonttype" 
to "42" which will embed the complete Truetype font in the file.

Mike

On 10/02/2010 01:55 PM, Ed Lazarus wrote:
> All,
>
> I am wondering if anyone knows of a working example that yields
> a postscript figure editable in Adobe Illustrator; that is, the 
> characters are editable as characters.
> I have only been able to get drawn fonts and would love to have a test 
> case that is known  to work.
>
> My environment is:
>> python
> Python 2.6.6 (r266:84292, Sep 11 2010, 15:25:14)
> [GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5659)] on darwin
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>> import matplotlib
>>>> matplotlib.__version__
> '1.0.0'
>>>> matplotlib.__file__
> '/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/matplotlib/__init__.pyc'
>>>>
> my rc file is:
> backend : TkAgg # the default backend
> interactive : True
> ps.usedistiller : xpdf
>
> I can produce postscript fonts outside python, say in IDL.
> I can produce postscript fonts in python using the psg package, but 
> not matplotlib.
> In all the examples at http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/ I did not 
> find anything that
> explicitly addresses this issue.
>
> Thanks to anyone who answers with a test case.
>
>
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