LaTeX Solving PSFRAG for PDFs in LaTeX

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The discussion addresses the challenge of using psfrag with PDFs in LaTeX for a paper submission to the Journal of Physical Chemistry, which does not accept postscript files. The user seeks a solution to replace parts of a PDF with LaTeX fonts, as psfrag is incompatible with PDFs. An alternative suggestion is to use Adobe Acrobat 8 to convert postscript files to PDF, allowing for further manipulation of the graphics. The user also inquires about alternatives to gnuplot that are compatible with macOS. The conversation highlights the need for effective graphics handling in LaTeX for academic publishing.
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Hi,

Let me preface my question by saying, I'm not sure if this is the right section but it seemed to be the most fitting. If it isn't, please move it, and I apologize for the inconvenience.

So the issue is that the professor that I am working with and I are getting ready to publish a paper. Well, I used gnuplot to generate the graphs and then imported them into the latex document and use psfrag to replace various parts of the postscript file with the pretty latex fonts. However, the journal of physical chemistry doesn't accept postscript files for graphics, they require it to be done as pdf graphics. The problem is that the psfrag package doesn't work with pdfs and I cannot find any such package to replace parts of the pdf to make use of the pretty latex fonts. If there is no easy solution, is there an alternative to gnuplot that works well on mac os?
 
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Thread moved to Math & Science Software -- hopefully you'll get some good replies in here. Here is a comment from Astronuc:

Astronuc said:
We use Adobe Acrobat 8 to convert ps files to pdf. I also converts MS Word files to pdf. On can then copy the graph in the pdf file and paste it as some other format, e.g. bmp.

Welcome to the PF!
 

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