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One thing I remember from back in the day was that the text used to be
supplied as a group of glyphs, so text extraction and modification was
really easy (I was able to do some simple tweeks from the command-line).
But then a few years ago, to address some problem (I can't remember what),
it was decided that the glyphs would be individually placed, making it hard
to extract out groups of text.
On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 1:29 AM, Jeff Blackburne <jbl...@al...>
wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 2:30 AM, Moore, Eric (NIH/NIDDK) [F] <
> eri...@ni...> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Is it ever possible to edit the text produced by matplotlib when saving
> to ps, eps or pdf? No matter the combination of setting I try the text
> always imports as outlines rather than text.
> >
> > If it makes a difference, I'm using CorelDraw. Does this work for
> anyone?
> >
> > Eric
>
> Hi Eric,
>
> Have you tried setting text.usetex to True in your matplotlibrc? That
> might help. For Postscript files, you may also have to use Poppler or Xpdf
> as your distiller.
>
> See http://matplotlib.org/users/usetex.html for more details.
>
> Hope that helps,
> Jeff
>
>
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No problem!
On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 12:00 AM, Matthew Brett <mat...@gm...>
wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 11:06 AM, Benjamin Root <ben...@ou...> wrote:
> > Which version of matplotlib are you running? I could have sworn this was
> > fixed awhile ago. If I understand the problem correctly, essentially, the
> > autoscalling was clipping empty patches out.
>
> I'm embarrassed to say that I didn't look at my version, and now I do,
> it was 1.3.1, and you are quite right, 1.4.0 (and 1.4.2) fixes that.
> Thanks, and, sorry to write too quickly,
>
> Matthew
>

Hi,
according to mpl_toolkits/basemap/__init__.py Basemap depends on scipy
for some interpolation routine and OWSLib for the wmsimage routine.
However scipy and OWSLib are not listed among the dependencies
on the documentation web page about installation:
http://matplotlib.org/basemap/users/installing.html#dependencies
I think scipy and OWSLib should be listed there, at least as optional
libraries (like PIL), right?
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On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 2:30 AM, Moore, Eric (NIH/NIDDK) [F] <eri...@ni...> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Is it ever possible to edit the text produced by matplotlib when saving to ps, eps or pdf? No matter the combination of setting I try the text always imports as outlines rather than text.
> 
> If it makes a difference, I'm using CorelDraw. Does this work for anyone?
> 
> Eric
Hi Eric,
Have you tried setting text.usetex to True in your matplotlibrc? That might help. For Postscript files, you may also have to use Poppler or Xpdf as your distiller. 
See http://matplotlib.org/users/usetex.html for more details.
Hope that helps,
Jeff

I have had an illustrator work with my eps plots generated in MPL, and she
used to get text. She was using some Adobe software, IIRC.
Joy
On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 2:30 AM, Moore, Eric (NIH/NIDDK) [F] <
eri...@ni...> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is it ever possible to edit the text produced by matplotlib when saving to
> ps, eps or pdf? No matter the combination of setting I try the text always
> imports as outlines rather than text.
>
> If it makes a difference, I'm using CorelDraw. Does this work for anyone?
>
> Eric
>
>
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On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 11:06 AM, Benjamin Root <ben...@ou...> wrote:
> Which version of matplotlib are you running? I could have sworn this was
> fixed awhile ago. If I understand the problem correctly, essentially, the
> autoscalling was clipping empty patches out.
I'm embarrassed to say that I didn't look at my version, and now I do,
it was 1.3.1, and you are quite right, 1.4.0 (and 1.4.2) fixes that.
Thanks, and, sorry to write too quickly,
Matthew