[OS X TeX] Lucida

[James A. Mingo]

There is a way of inserting labels using Illustrator that
does not require "TeX Font Outliner.app".  It is more or
less the same as described by Gary: except -- work with .eps
files in Illustrator, when everything os OK, drop on
"Preview.app", choose save as pdf. The resulting figure will
be cropped.

Jamie Mingo

On Thu, 11 Dec 2008, Gary L. Gray wrote:

>
> On Dec 11, 2008, at 11:01 AM, William Adams wrote:
>
> > On Dec 10, 2008, at 9:26 PM, George Gratzer wrote:
> >
> > > I have the Lucida fonts and -- thanks to Herb -- they are properly
> > > installed to be used in LaTeX.
> > >
> > > Question: Can I install them to be used in other applications? Such as
> > > Illustrator?
> >
> >
> > Sort of, but you really don't want to go that route. Instead, from
> > Illustrator use the marked objects plug-in and in TeX use warmreader:
> >
> > http://www.cds.caltech.edu/~wgm/WARM/reader2001.html
>
> That works nicely, but there are other options. For example, you could use the
> technique I have posted here at least twice before, which is ...
>
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>
> Here is the procedure we use to label figures -- it includes the ability to
> crop figures, but with AI CS3, you can use the "Crop Area Tool" to crop the
> figure prior to saving. This eliminates one file and one step in the process
> and it is very quick.
>
> The general idea is that you can create the labels in a .tex file, convert the
> fonts in the resulting .pdf file to Postscript outlines, open that .ps file in
> AI, and then copy and post those outlines in the AI figure file. The steps are
> as follows:
>
> (1) Download the archive at (the site is currently down -- email me if you
> can't get it via this link and I will email the zip file to you):
>
> http://www.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/PDF-Processing-Apps.zip
>
> (2) Create your figure in AI and save it in "Adobe PDF (pdf)" format. I will
> assume it is called "test.pdf". We have a directory for each figure that will
> eventually contain 2 or 3 files, depending on whether or not you use the Crop
> Area Tool in CS3.
>
> (3) Create the labels for your figure in a .tex file. I will assume it is
> called "labels.tex".
>
> (4) Typeset the labels.tex file using pdflatex and then drop the resulting
> labels.pdf file on "TeX Font Outliner.app"
>
> (5) After you drop the .pdf file on "TeX Font Outliner.app", the resulting .ps
> file will automatically open in AI. Copy the labels from the .ps file and
> place them labels in the fig you saved in part (1), i.e., in test.pdf
>
> (6) Move the labels into position and save test.pdf.
>
> (7 with CS3) If you using CS3, you will now Select All, double-click the Crop
> Area Tool, and then select "Fit Crop Area to selected art" in the subsequent
> dialog. Now save test.pdf.
>
> (7 without CS3) With CS2 and earlier, drop test.pdf onto "PDF Cropper.app".
> This will rename test.pdf to test-AI.pdf (so that you will have your original
> file for later editing) and then it will crop that file by removing all white
> space and it will name the cropped file test.pdf.
>
> That's all there is too it. I have only tested this with AI CS2 and CS3,
> though it should work with earlier versions with a slight modification of the
> AppleScript. Both apps are universal binary.
>
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>
> We have labeled hundreds of figures this way over the past couple of years and
> it works exceedingly well.
>
> -- Gary
>