Hi,
I'm currently working on my master thesis, which heavily involves
creating plots and images. I recently found out about the pdf_tex
feature of Inkscape, which basically creates a seperate LaTeX file
besides the normal *.pdf output, to store the text. The advantage of
this method is that the text displayed in the included pdf matches
exactly the size of your font in the rest of your document, even when
resizing the image. This is just a brilliant feature as it allows me to
fit the width of the images to my column or textwidth while having the
same font size for all images, it just looks amazing. While this work
pretty well for the images i draw myself, i tried to find a similar
feature for my matplotlib plots. The closest format to pdf_tex i found
was pgf. But i have a major issue with this pgf format. When i resize
the picture in LaTeX it also resizes the font size. Is there a way to
get arround this issue? Guess i could resize the plot in matplotlib to
fit approximately the page width and just include the pgf without
resizing it, but i want a consistent look of all my images/plots in my
thesis. Right now, I don't see any advantage over using just a plain pdf
output using matplotlib, besides using the same font as in the rest of
my document (but using pgf to include my plots / images also takes a lot
more time to compile).
I'm not bound to pgf images, so if there is a vector graphic solution
which let's me keep the same font size no matter how i resize my
picture, I would go with it. I guess i could save the image as a svg and
save it with inkscape to pdf_tex, but as i allready mentioned i have a
lot of images / plots.
I would really appreciate any suggestions.
Regards
Benjamin Isbarn
PS: Excuse my bad english :)
PPS: It doesn't seem to be easy to resize a pgf picture to the textwidth
or columnwidth either (because of the \input statement, right now i'm
using \scalebox{}{}). So an alternative to pgf wouldn't be bad.