Mathematica Export to PDF problem

[amike1980]

Hi guys,

I have a problem with exporting to PDF format from Mathematica 7.0.
As seen in the attachment PlotLabel is correctly displayed in the note book (test.nb), but when I try to export it, some characters just don't seem to be displayed correctly (plot.pdf).

I've tried the "Save Selection As..." -> PDF, function and get the same result as above.

I've tried to change the $CharacterEncoding variable with limited success, getting some of the letters to display correctly, but no all.

Here is where i ran out of ideas.
Does anybody have any thoughts?

 

[Simon_Tyler]

Hi amike1980,

I don't see any attached files...

In my experience, it's often hard to get what you want from "Save Selection As..." -> PDF. It's normally easier to print (the selection) to a PDF printer.

(The last time I used a windows computer, I used http://www.cutepdf.com/)

 

[amike1980]

Hi,

I'm uploading attachments again, hope it works.

In the past I used Export function. And it worked fine, but I don't seem to be able to get it to work now. And I don't have the note book, where it worked any more...

thx for the suggestion I'll try it out.

Is it possible to print directly from a note book?
Since I'll need to export many plots for my Bachelor's degree.

 

[Simon_Tyler]

For exporting a figure, you probably do want to use Export rather just printing to a pdf. That said, both methods worked ok for me - but the pdf printed version had a capital instead of lowercase checked z. See attached.

It might be an embedded font issue... older versions of Mathematica did not embed fonts into pdfs, but I think that new versions do.

There's some discussion of similar problems at
http://pages.uoregon.edu/noeckel/MathematicaGraphics.html#MathematicaFonts
maybe something there will help.

If all else fails, you can always export high quality rasterized images...

 

[amike1980]

thx for the link, but it didn't work.
Well i was unable do apply one of the suggested fixes, because I using windows but the fix was for the mac OS.

However I found out that changing my regional settings, changes the number of correctly printed Hacke letters. But I could not get Mathematica to print all of them correctly.
Can you tell me your regional settings, so I can try it out?

If it will not work I'll use rasterezed images.
What raster size and format would you suggest?

thx

 

[Doom of Doom]

Hello, I am also having an export problem in Mathematica when trying to export pdf format. Namely, I can't get it to export pdf images at all!

Anything I try to export, such as the image:

sinplot=Plot[Sin[x],{x,0,1}]​

will export perfectly fine to .jpg or .png file types

Export["sinplot.jpg",sinplot]​

but does NOT produce anything if I try .eps or .pdf. I don't see any errors in Mathematica, it simply just doesn't create the file.

Export["sinplot.pdf",sinplot]​

I'm running Mathematica on an external computer through ssh, so maybe that has something to do with my problem. But I don't see why it can output one file type and not another.