| EPSF, embedded fonts, powerpoint [message #30663] |
Sun, 12 May 2002 12:05  |
Sean Dettrick
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Registered: April 2002
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Hi All,
I am inserting my EPS files into powerpoint and find that the fonts are very
clunky. Does anybody know how to embed the postscript font into the EPS
file in such a way that powerpoint represents it properly? Is it possible
to do this in direct graphics?
It seems to work OK if I convert the EPS to PICT or PNG, but everything is
fuzzy around the edges if I do this.
Thanks,
Sean
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| Re: EPSF, embedded fonts, powerpoint [message #30757 is a reply to message #30663] |
Wed, 15 May 2002 06:03  |
Paul Van Delst[1]
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Reimar Bauer wrote:
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> Reimar Bauer wrote:
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>> "Steve Smith" wrote:
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>>> David, and Sean:
>>> I was the OP for the thread David quoted. Ghostscript will do a pretty good
>>> job making a PNG from IDL postscript, but I agree with Sean that PICT generally
>>> looks better, mostly the text is sharper (I used CorelDraw 8 to convert PS -->
>>> PICT). As for the OP's question, I _think_ if you use device, font=0 in direct
>>> graphics, you'll be using postscript fonts when you do SET_PLOT, 'PS'. However,
>>> you can't warp postscript fonts, so things like shade_surf will look different.
>>> I think PowerPoint would do better with TrueType fonts, though. When I posted
>>> about this, people told me that newer versions of IDL for WinXX have a WMF
>>> device (I use IDL 5.2 on Linux, so I've no experience here). It sounds like
>>> you would want to use this device if you are working on WinXX, then I would
>>> guess PowerPoint's display should be identical to what is viewed in IDL.
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>> Dear all
>> did you know pstoimg?
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>> pstoimg -type png -aaliastext -crop a -density 150 file
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> I should add
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> I have seen this by the latex2html package.
I use the unix "convert" utility myself. Works great. I create luverly PS output with nice
looking fonts and then convert those to whatever image format I want (usually gif) for
stuff like powerpoint presentations (windows running via win4lin) or web pictures. Of
course if you're a Windows only user then, well, uh.. err.. never mind.
paulv
p.s. I always use font=1 when creating PS output in IDL. Much better looking IMO.
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| Re: EPSF, embedded fonts, powerpoint [message #30820 is a reply to message #30741] |
Thu, 16 May 2002 05:51 |
Paul Van Delst[1]
Messages: 1157
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Mark Hadfield wrote:
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> "Paul Van Delst" <paul.vandelst@noaa.gov> wrote in message
> news:3CE25C87.B91B5BB9@noaa.gov...
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>> I use the unix "convert" utility myself. Works great. I create
>> luverly PS output with nice looking fonts and then convert those to
>> whatever image format I want (usually gif) for stuff like powerpoint
>> presentations (windows running via win4lin) or web pictures. Of
>> course if you're a Windows only user then, well, uh.. err.. never
>> mind.
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> Convert works fine under Windows. It's part of the ImageMagick
> package. For rendering Postscript it uses the Ghostscript
> console-mode Postscript interpreter, gswin32c.
How about that. I have no idea what ImageMagick is but there you go. One could also
probably do the cygwin thing to get their hands on convert in a Windows env.
paulv
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Paul van Delst Religious and cultural
CIMSS @ NOAA/NCEP/EMC purity is a fundamentalist
Ph: (301)763-8000 x7274 fantasy
Fax:(301)763-8545 V.S.Naipaul
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