Re: [matplotlib-devel] Produce text runs in the postscript backend

I am in favor of such a change.  I also have rcParams['pdf.fonttype'] = 42, so I can use Adobe Illustrator to tweak my mpl generated plots.   Changing a word in Illustrator becomes quite a pain when every glyph is a separate text box.

-Ben Reedlunn

On Feb 18, 2015, at 8:52 AM, Eric Moore <ew...@re...> wrote:

> Hi, 
> 
> I posted on the user list a while back about saving editable text using the postscript backend [1].  There I was informed that this was changed a few years ago to individually place glyphs.  It looks to me, that this change was about correctly supporting unicode in this backend [2].
> 
> Would the project be open to changing this to produce text runs when all of the characters are ascii? This way, the general unicode case should still work but runs of text where the special handling is not necessary should result in editable text.  I'm happy to work up a patch, but I don't want to spend the time if there is no hope of it being merged.
> 
> My use case is to be able to make some tweaks to figures post mpl.  In my case this tends to be to either combine figures from several sources into a single coherent figure or to adjust the figure size or spacing slightly so the final figure fits into the space available.  All of this can be done in mpl directly, but in terms of effective use of my time, opening the figure in Corel Draw, Inkscape or Illustrator is much faster since I can get the figure 90% of the way there quickly and easily using mpl.  
> 
> Eric
> 
> 1. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.matplotlib.general/34816
> 2. https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/commit/80321a3b489994748b79e41bc34a65f836a9a03f
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