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Re: Sun symbol appears in plot window but not in pdf output [message #90174 is a reply to message #90173]

Thu, 05 February 2015 11:23

jl386
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Registered: January 2015

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On Thursday, February 5, 2015 at 12:18:33 PM UTC-7, jl...@st-andrews.ac.uk wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I know there are a million topics on the Sun symbol but I can create it but when I save as a pdf it doesn't appear.
>
> My simple code looks like this
>
> p = plot(findgen(100), xtitle='$M_\odot$')
>
> which produces exactly what I'm after, a M with subscript sun symbol. But when I then do
>
> p.save, 'test.pdf'
>
> The sun symbol appears as TM. I've tried other latex commands and they all appear fine in the pdf output. I'm using IDL 8.3 on yosemite if that matters. If anyone has a suggestion I would really appreciate it!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Joe

So the solution appears to be using /bitmap in the save command...no idea why though.

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		Sun symbol appears in plot window but not in pdf output By: jl386 on Thu, 05 February 2015 11:18
		Re: Sun symbol appears in plot window but not in pdf output By: jl386 on Thu, 05 February 2015 11:23
		Re: Sun symbol appears in plot window but not in pdf output By: chris_torrence@NOSPAM on Thu, 05 February 2015 18:39

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