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Re: symbol font not expoting correctly to EPS from iplot in OSX [message #71293 is a reply to message #71284]

Wed, 09 June 2010 04:08

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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Luis Alonso writes:

> i'm generating a bunch of graphs in which the title includes greek
> symbols (using the !9 + !X way).
> They show correctly, but when i export to EPS in vector format the
> greek symbols appear empty. However, if i open the file with inkscape
> (a vector illustration editing program) i can select and change the
> type and the text is there.
>
> This behavior seems to happen only under OSX (my version is Snow
> Leopard), it also happens with different versions of IDL (i've tryed
> 6.3 and 7.0).
>
> My guess is that there is some kind of font conflict, but don't know
> how to solve it.
>
> Any hints?

Not only is it different fonts, but it is different ways
of expressing the same symbol in those fonts. Here is an
article that explains this is some detail:

http://www.dfanning.com/ps_tips/greeksym.html

Cheers,

David

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		Re: symbol font not expoting correctly to EPS from iplot in OSX By: Luis Alonso on Thu, 10 June 2010 07:58
		Re: symbol font not expoting correctly to EPS from iplot in OSX By: David Fanning on Thu, 10 June 2010 07:32
		Re: symbol font not expoting correctly to EPS from iplot in OSX By: Luis Alonso on Thu, 10 June 2010 07:19
		Re: symbol font not expoting correctly to EPS from iplot in OSX By: pfp on Wed, 09 June 2010 10:09
		Re: symbol font not expoting correctly to EPS from iplot in OSX By: David Fanning on Wed, 09 June 2010 04:08
		Re: symbol font not expoting correctly to EPS from iplot in OSX By: David Fanning on Fri, 11 June 2010 09:29

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