[OS X TeX] Mathematica fonts in graphics

[Ross Moore]

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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