Hi, I'd like to write a paper with figures in eps format. Since the paper is for one of Elseviers journals the eps-figures have to meet the following requirements: - all colors have to be in the rgb color space - this seems to be true for the files I generate. - it should include a 8bit preview/header at a resolution of 72dpi - no idea how to generate this - allowed fonts are: Arial, Courier, Helvetica, Times, Symbol - this is something I can set in the rc file, although I have no idea what is true in latex rendered parts Can somebody tell me please, whether matplotlib indeed creates colors in the rgb color space and answer the other two questions, too? Would be really great ... TIA Christian
>>>>> "Christian" == Christian Meesters <mee...@un...> writes: Christian> Hi, I'd like to write a paper with figures in eps Christian> format. Since the paper is for one of Elseviers Christian> journals the eps-figures have to meet the following Christian> requirements: - all colors have to be in the rgb color Christian> space - this seems to be true for the files I generate. Christian> - it should include a 8bit preview/header at a Christian> resolution of 72dpi - no idea how to generate this - Christian> allowed fonts are: Arial, Courier, Helvetica, Times, Christian> Symbol - this is something I can set in the rc file, Christian> although I have no idea what is true in latex rendered Christian> parts Christian> Can somebody tell me please, whether matplotlib indeed Christian> creates colors in the rgb color space and answer the Christian> other two questions, too? Would be really great ... Yes, it does use the RGB colorspace, but we would like to support other colorspaces too. As for the fonts, yes, you can control this with rc. As for the preview header, I suspect there arte 3rd part tools that can do this (ImageMagick?). We should be able to do it ourself with agg, but it would require someone to dig in and figure out the spec. JDH
On 2006年9月28日, Christian Meesters apparently wrote: > - it should include a 8bit preview/header at a resolution of 72dpi - no idea > how to generate this I think you can use http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gsview/epstool.htm but do not know what dpi control you'll have. hth, Alan Isaac
Thanks, John and Alan, That was fast! > As for the fonts, yes, you can control this with rc. Sure, but what about the latex rendered parts? (I wonder whether it actually matters, but I'd like to be sure, because there so little time left ...) > On 2006年9月28日, Christian Meesters apparently wrote: > > - it should include a 8bit preview/header at a resolution of 72dpi - no > > idea how to generate this > > I think you can use > http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gsview/epstool.htm > but do not know what dpi control you'll have. It works, thanks. The installation is easy. Setting the resolution in dpi can be done by giving the flag --dpi <resolution>. Cheers Christian
On Thursday 28 September 2006 10:51 am, Christian Meesters wrote: > Thanks, John and Alan, > > That was fast! > > > As for the fonts, yes, you can control this with rc. > > Sure, but what about the latex rendered parts? (I wonder whether it > actually matters, but I'd like to be sure, because there so little time > left ...) If you set your rc settings to one of the latex's psnfss fonts (times, helvetica, courier are all supported), you will get the fonts you are looking for. See http://www.scipy.org/Cookbook/Matplotlib/UsingTex. > > On 2006年9月28日, Christian Meesters apparently wrote: > > > - it should include a 8bit preview/header at a resolution of 72dpi - no > > > idea how to generate this > > > > I think you can use > > http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gsview/epstool.htm > > but do not know what dpi control you'll have. > > It works, thanks. The installation is easy. Setting the resolution in dpi > can be done by giving the flag --dpi <resolution>. > > Cheers > Christian > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share > your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn > cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > Matplotlib-users mailing list > Mat...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users -- Darren S. Dale, Ph.D. dd...@co...
> As for the preview header, I suspect there arte 3rd part tools that > can do this (ImageMagick?). We should be able to do it ourself with > agg, but it would require someone to dig in and figure out the spec. > > JDH One last remark on this: Since so many journals demand this, would it be worth a feature request? (I don't have the time nor the skills to work on this.) One may think of this as one wishes (don't like these publishing companies and their demands, either), but matplotlib wants to enable its users to produce figures ready for publication, right? Christian
>>>>> "Christian" == Christian Meesters <mee...@un...> writes: Christian> One last remark on this: Since so many journals demand Christian> this, would it be worth a feature request? (I don't Christian> have the time nor the skills to work on this.) One may Christian> think of this as one wishes (don't like these Christian> publishing companies and their demands, either), but Christian> matplotlib wants to enable its users to produce figures Christian> ready for publication, right? Certainly -- just add a feature request to the sf site and post the same to the users or devel list. Can't promise that we have the time either (though we may have the skills) but maybe someone will take it up. Darren Dale has done the most work of late on the PS backend and he is currently on vacation -- maybe when he returns he'll take it up. JDH
FYI I don't know what the current state of affairs was but I looked into this a little bit about 5 or so years ago. Adobe has a spec for what the preview image in an EPS file is suppose to be (I can't remember the details on what it is but you can google for the EPS spec) but I don't think anyone really followed it. On Mac's, everything produced a PICT image and on Windows everything produced something else (I forget exactly what it was). In short, at the time I checked it out, it was very difficult to make a high quality preview image that would work well on a Mac and a Windows box. It would be nice if things were different now. We do a lot of plotting that ends up in presentations and it would be nice if you could embed an EPS in the presentation with a high quality preview. Ted ---------Included Message---------- >Date: 28-sep-2006 14:04:55 -0700 >From: "Christian Meesters" <mee...@un...> >To: <mat...@li...> >Subject: Re: [Matplotlib-users] eps file format > >> As for the preview header, I suspect there arte 3rd part tools that >> can do this (ImageMagick?). We should be able to do it ourself with >> agg, but it would require someone to dig in and figure out the spec. >> >> JDH >One last remark on this: Since so many journals demand this, would it be worth >a feature request? (I don't have the time nor the skills to work on this.) >One may think of this as one wishes (don't like these publishing companies >and their demands, either), but matplotlib wants to enable its users to >produce figures ready for publication, right? > >Christian > >------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT >Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your >opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash >http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV >_______________________________________________ >Matplotlib-users mailing list >Mat...@li... >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users > > ---------End of Included Message----------