Re: [Possibly OT] How to convert LaTeX output to a portable vector-graphic format?
- From: "George N. White III" <aa056@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 18:04:53 -0300
On Wed, 7 Jun 2006, Joel Kolstad wrote:
Hi,
I've spent quite awhile trying to get this to work without success so far...
Here's what I'm using: MikTeX on a Windows PC
What I'd like to do: Using LaTeX, I want to create "labels" such as
$\vec{a^2}$ that I intend to use to "drop" on top of drawings that I create
in standard vector drawing packages such as Adobe Illustrator; I'll then add
a Bezier curve from the label to, e.g., some plot I've made using another
package.
The problem: How do I get LaTeX's output into a *generic* vector graphics
format that only consists of *curves* and not font information as well?
I've spent a lot of time trying to go the LaTeX->DVI->EPS or WMF route, and
the problem is that font information is still embedded into EPS and WMF
files, and often the EPS or WMF file won't import successfully into another
application on the same PC, and it's almost never that the file will work on
a different PC (due to specific fonts not being present).
By "work" I assume you mean the file can be edited in some drawing package. In this context, EPS usually means Illustrator AIEPS. WMF and
SVG are also candidates.
I can successfully get the labels into a *bitmap* format, doing something
like LaTeX->pdfLaTex->Adobe Acrobat->Use the graphical selection tool and
just paste the result to the clipboard, but of course I'd like to end up
with a true vector format file so that even if I resize the label, it won't
be jagged.
Perhaps I'm asking too much and should just live with reasonably
high-resolution bitmaps?
Thanks... and please let me know if there's a more appropriate newsgroup for
such a request.
For years I have I routinely annotate figures using material formatted in TeX and converted to outline paths using ghostscript's ps2ai.ps (e.g., via pstoedit). Recently I have used Inkscape SVG with good results, but for
a PDF workflow (note that you still need to convert fonts to paths when exporting to PDF if you want to edit the file on machines that lack the fonts adn/or avoid encoding issues).
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George N. White III <aa056@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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