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Re: IDL graphics & LaTeX [message #94749 is a reply to message #94740]

Fri, 22 September 2017 07:06

Craig Markwardt
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On Thursday, September 21, 2017 at 7:10:52 AM UTC-4, Markus Schmassmann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm putting graphics created with the IDL graphics functions into a
> LaTeX document.
>
> Does someone here know a way to make sure that the text elements of the
> graphic (axis labels,axis tickmarks,titles,legends...) are typeset by
> LaTeX such that they have the same fonts & sizes as the rest of the
> LaTeX document?
>
> I'm looking for something similar to GNUplot's epslatex terminal.
>
> A brute force approach would be:
>
> idl -e "(plot(/test)).save,'example.eps'&exit"
> grep '^(.*)$' -A 1 example.eps
>
> ; remove those lines from the eps file and parse them to get what I want
> in LaTeX
>
> But I hope someone of you has a better way than to grep & sed an eps file.
>
> Markus

There used to be a package called psfrag which allowed one to do this. I haven't used it in something like two decades, but it sounds like what you want.

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		IDL graphics & LaTeX By: Markus Schmassmann on Thu, 21 September 2017 04:10
		Re: IDL graphics & LaTeX By: Craig Markwardt on Fri, 22 September 2017 07:06
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