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[MUG] eps
Author: Wilhelm Werner    Posted: 17/03/2000 06:33:20 GMT
>> From: Wilhelm Werner Hi MUGers Thanks for any advice. But let me be more precise: I want to export graphics to EPS (I know how do do this) and thereafter I want to import it into some graphics package (Illustrator or so) and EDIT that graphics (change lines, add items, formulas etc.) not just rotate or so. Its just for polishing the picture. Does anyone know the trick (for Win9x and/or Mac)? Regards Wilhelm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Wilhelm Werner Phone: +49-(0)7940-1306-96 FH Heilbronn/Standort Kuenzelsau Fax : +49-(0)7940-1306-20 Daimlerstr. 35 D-74653 Kuenzelsau e-mail: ----------------------------------------------------------------------

[MUG] Re: eps
Author: Maple Group    Posted: 20/03/2000 21:09:04 GMT
>> From: Maple Group >>> From: Wilhelm Werner | Thanks for any advice. But let me be more precise: | I want to export graphics to EPS (I know how do do this) and thereafter | I want to import it into some graphics package (Illustrator or so) and | EDIT that graphics (change lines, add items, formulas etc.) not just -=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=- Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 09:09:40 +0100 From: Lionel Porcheron To: Subject: eps Hi MUGers The only way to export graphics to EPS is to use : >plotsetup(ps,plotoutput=`path with slashs/file.ps`,plotoptions=`noborder,portrait,with=500,height=500`); This command line enable to make PS plot instead of inline plot (you can recover the inline plot by typing >plotsetup(inline)). You have to be aware that it is a PostScript file (that is to say without Bounding Box), you can import it in Illsutrator and modify the plot. To get an EPS file, the only thing you have to do is to export your modified plot in EPS (which is not difficult in Illustrator). I would like to add that it is the only way to get nice plots with Maple, copy-paste enable you to get bitmap files which are not often enought for publications. Moreover, it's the only way to modify each peace of the plot (lines, fonts,...). In the first command line, the height and width are there to keep orginal dimensions of the plot (i use this options for exporting plots in EPS for my book - i used CorelDRAW). Regards, Lionel Porcheron ____________________________________ Lionel Porcheron Etudiant ENSEEIHT Informatique Site web sur LaTeX et Maple : http://www.multimania.com/lionelp -=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=- Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 10:07:33 +0100 To: From: Manuel Ruiz Delgado Subject: eps Wilhelm: There is a way in Windows: -export to eps -use Ghostscript + ps2ai (freeware) to save it in Adobe Illustrator .ai format (instructions at http://www.mayura.com/ps2ai.htm) -open it in Adobe Illustrator and edit. It is a tedious, file by file process. I don't have AI, but Mayura Draw (AI-compatible shareware, www.mayura.com) does just this. Manuel Ruiz -=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=- Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 07:37:08 -0600 From: Herman Jaramillo To: Subject: eps The difficulty with these files is that most of the packages treat them as one object with no depth. There is a package I used 4 years ago called IslandDraw that let you go to all the layers of a (PostScript) graphic, and so you can manipulate each them making possible to edit inside the picture. I do not know if there is a version of this for Windows or NT. Other than that I have not seen anything that performs the way you want. You can do simple changes by editing your .ps file directly using any editor (vi, or word for example). I do this often for editing labels and titles, font types etc. If the graphic is very complicated there is no much you can do, otherwise you can see the ".eps" as a source code and change it to what you want. Herman.

[MUG] Re: eps
Author: Eddie Saudrais    Posted: 23/03/2000 20:39:10 GMT
>> From: Eddie Saudrais | >>> From: Wilhelm Werner | | I want to export graphics to EPS (I know how do do this) and thereafter | | I want to import it into some graphics package (Illustrator or so) and | | EDIT that graphics (change lines, add items, formulas etc.) not just | | -=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=- | | Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 09:09:40 +0100 | From: Lionel Porcheron [snip] | The only way to export graphics to EPS is to use : | >plotsetup(ps,plotoutput=`path with | slashs/file.ps`,plotoptions=`noborder,portrait,with=500,height=500`); I also use this method. By default, the graphic is a monochrome one. For a colored picture, tou have to set plotoptions=`noborder,portrait,color`). A good solution is to export the graph by this way, and then to use the PSTricks package with LaTeX2e to add text, formula and to modify the graph. See http://perso.wanadoo.fr/eddie.saudrais/maple/maplef.html for explainations (in french and in english). Regards ********************************************* * Envoyez vos zim`eles `a * * * * * * Ma page maison : * * http://perso.wanadoo.fr/eddie.saudrais * *********************************************

[MUG] Re: eps
Author: Dr Francis J Wright    Posted: 28/03/2000 14:47:01 GDT
>> From: "Dr Francis J. Wright" | The only way to export graphics to EPS is to use : | >plotsetup(ps,plotoutput=`path with | slashs/file.ps`,plotoptions=`noborder,portrait,with=500,height=500`); I found that simply exporting a worksheet as LaTeX seemed to work well. It automatically produced eps files for the two plots in my worksheet without any need to change the plot setup. (This was using Maple V R5.1 under Windows NT -- I haven't tried with any other version.) Francis -- Dr Francis J. Wright (Senior Tutor for Mathematics) School of Mathematical Sciences | mailto: Queen Mary & Westfield College | tel: (020) 7882 5453 (direct) University of London | fax: (020) 8981 9587 (dept.) Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, UK | http://www.maths.qmw.ac.uk/~fjw/

[MUG] Re: eps
Author: Joel A SHAPIRO    Posted: 31/03/2000 04:27:11 GDT
>> From: "Joel A. SHAPIRO" > >> From: "Dr Francis J. Wright" > I found that simply exporting a worksheet as LaTeX seemed to work well. > It automatically produced eps files for the two plots in my worksheet > without any need to change the plot setup. (This was using Maple V R5.1 > under Windows NT -- I haven't tried with any other version.) I too use export to latex, though under Solaris 7 on Sparc. I have a problem, though, with plots made with scaling=CONSTRAINED. In the Maple worksheet such plots work fine, making circles come out circles, but when I latex the exported file and print, the plot is expanded horizontally to fit the page, but not vertically, destroying the equality of scale that is the purpose of CONSTRAINED. Is this a known bug in Maple export to latex, or in my dvips driver? Joel Shapiro, Prof. of Physics, Rutgers University (732) 445-3886 Fax: (732) 445-4343

[MUG] Re: eps
Author: Dr Francis J Wright    Posted: 03/04/2000 19:24:01 GDT
>> From: "Dr Francis J. Wright" "Joel A. SHAPIRO" wrote: > > I too use export to latex, though under Solaris 7 on Sparc. I have a > problem, though, with plots made with scaling=CONSTRAINED. In the > Maple worksheet such plots work fine, making circles come out circles, > but when I latex the exported file and print, the plot is expanded > horizontally to fit the page, but not vertically, destroying the > equality of scale that is the purpose of CONSTRAINED. > Is this a known bug in Maple export to latex, or in my dvips > driver? I noticed the same thing, so it's probably either a bug or a feature (depending on your point of view) in "Export to LaTeX". I found that "Export to LaTeX" was useful to get a first draft, but for the "production run" I regenerated just the plots that I wanted using plotsetup to control the details. (This was mainly because I didn't want borders, and my hasty attempt to edit them out of the PostScript by hand was unsuccessful.) I then used the standard LaTeX2e graphics package to import the eps files. This package (which is documented in the current edition of Lamport's LaTeX book) allows control of the scaling and rotation of the eps figures. You should be able to re-constrain the figures if necessary, although it may not be necessary if you proceed as I have outlined. (It was not an issue with what I have just done so I'm not certain about the details.) The biggest problem that I had was that after I had set everything up I noticed that the "symbol = CIRCLE" points in my plots had shrunk so as to become invisible. I think this was because I let Maple generate eps files at its default size, which is rather large. The points did not scale up in the way that the rest of the plot did, and when I then shrank the whole thing in LaTeX the points disappeared. Since I didn't feel like doing the whole thing again and I was up against a deadline I cheated and drew them in by hand, but it's something to watch out for! Francis -- Dr Francis J. Wright (Senior Tutor for Mathematics) School of Mathematical Sciences | mailto: Queen Mary & Westfield College | tel: (020) 7882 5453 (direct) University of London | fax: (020) 8981 9587 (dept.) Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, UK | http://www.maths.qmw.ac.uk/~fjw/

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