Font problems when exporting as EPS
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I just upgraded to R2014b. When exporting figures via "print -depsc" the resulting EPS files have weird fonts embedded that are unreadable by Adobe Illustrator. Is there anything I can do to fix this? I want to go back to exporting with helvetic or arial font.
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povilas ambrasas
am 24 Okt. 2015
I had the same problem, fonts aren't exported correctly to EPS in Matlab 2015b. The use of TickLabelInterpreter solved the problem
set(a,'TickLabelInterpreter', 'latex')
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JanikKk
am 14 Jul. 2016
Workaround
I have the same issue with Matlab R2015a. When I try to open the exported .eps file (a simple x-y plot) in Illustrator (CS6) I get an error message, which says that a couple fonts are missing: mwa_cmmi10, mwb_cmmi10, etc and Illustrator will replace them. I used the Latex interpreter in the axes labels, "cmmi" indicates that Matlab used the computer modern font family, which is the typical Latex font family. The only problem is that Matlab, for some reason, added the "mwa_" or "mwb_" in front of the actual font names, which are embedded in the file. These font names do not exist in the system (I'm using Mac) and therefore Illustrator cannot access them.
What worked for me:
- Make your plots in Matlab, save them as .eps with whichever font you want
- Download the font family you used or check if it's already installed on your system (common fonts like Helvetica (on Mac), Times, etc are usually already installed. The Latex fonts//the computer modern family can be found on the internet)
- Open the eps.-file with Illustrator and click "ok" when the error message about the missing font pops up
- Now go to "Fonts --> Find Font..."
- The "Find font" dialogue shows which fonts are in your document. Missing fonts are displayed with an asterisk*.
- Replace these fonts with the corresponding font availabe in your system. For me it was "mwa_cmmi10" --> "cmmi10" in regular and "mwb_cmmi10" --> "cmmi10" in bold.
(This did not solve all of my font problems but at least 90%. Still having problems with some math symbols) Check: https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/find-missing-fonts.html
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Erik Johnson
am 4 Mai 2016
Bearbeitet: Erik Johnson
am 4 Mai 2016
This is still a problem in 2016a. Inexcusable that this has not been fixed in 2 years of releases.
plot([0 1],[0 1]);
xlabel('This is {\it{italic}}.')
ylabel('This is {\sl{slanted}}.')
print -depsc2 test.eps
"italic" and "slanted" are both set in the EPS file to be "Helvetica-Italic", which, of course, does not exist. The correct font is "Helvetica-Oblique" -- and has been for decades! This worked fine prior to HG2.
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Razvan
am 7 Mai 2016
You'll need to wait until Matlab 2035b is released. By that time they will fix all the bugs from the 2014b release. But by that time everyone will realize that there are alternatives (e.g. R) that can print eps files without any problems, and don't cost thousands of dollars.
matt dash
am 13 Okt. 2014
This certainly looks like a bug in the eps export. I don't have 2014b yet, but when i run your code in 2014a Illustrator tells me the missing fonts are "Helvetica" and "Helvetica-Bold"... looks like somehow the new version is replacing the word Helvetica with "any". You can try editing the .eps file in a text editor and find/replacing "any" with "Helvetica"... who knows, it might work.
Ema
am 15 Jan. 2019
Hi All,
I have the same problem. I do not have Helvetica. Therefore I did a different test.
I saved the figure using Arial font. Result: AI still misses Helvetica... I found this weird.
Then I did a trick: I converted my matlab eps into pdf. In pdf it result correct (Arial font).
When imported in AI the pdf is also correct and recognize the arial font, without asking for Helvetica.
I am wondering if it is practical to save directly editable pdfs from matlab or alternatively convert the eps in pdf.
My suspect is that the problem is not matlab, rather AI.
What you think?
I am using Matlab R2018b
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Jeff
am 9 Okt. 2014
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Elizabeth Jones
am 2 Dez. 2014
I am having the same issue, where symbols in my axis labels show up fine in the Matlab figure but do not export correctly when I save the file as either .eps (and insert into a LaTeX document) or as a .pdf. I hope this issue is resolved soon. It's annoying to have to open the figures in an older version of Matlab just to save as .eps.
Doug Hull
am 13 Okt. 2014
Bearbeitet: Doug Hull
am 13 Okt. 2014
From the printing developer:
The issue is that Illustrator complains about a missing Helvetica font when the file is imported. This is true in HG1 as well. We don't embed the font in our generated output file and if the font isn't installed locally on the system Illustrator won't find it.
It's funny in a way, given that Helvetica is one of the standard Adobe Postscript fonts and Adobe Illustrator doesn't provide support for it
Make sure AI has access to the font.
Can you send reproduction steps directly to hull @ mathworks.com
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Walter Roberson
am 11 Jul. 2017
Jeff, what was Mathwork's response when you opened a technical support case on this matter?
yserra
am 10 Feb. 2015
Has this issue been addressed anywhere? I am having the same issue with 2014b installed on a mac running Yosemite OS. Times New Roman font is written to eps file as Times Roman and no other application (Illustrator or Preview) can open with correct font. Like the other users here, I've used Matlab for years and made eps files with no issue (at least not like this). This seems inexcusable that they would release this product with such a basic error.
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Stewart Smith
am 13 Dez. 2015
It's a travesty that the Mathworks can't address issues like this given how much they charge for this piece of software. Nearly impossible to produce publication-quality figures anymore. That's why I'm defecting to Python.
Walter Roberson
am 13 Dez. 2015
Stewart, what was Mathwork's response when you opened a technical support case on this matter?
Brian
am 20 Feb. 2015
I have this problem as well. One can maybe work around it by copying the symbol itself into the text command, rather than the latex escape. e.g., I had this problem with \omega, but when I used ω directly instead the problem was resolved. So the issue seems to be a latex->eps problem in matlab. (Truely annoying, however, yes.)
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Razvan
am 29 Jan. 2016
I wonder if Mathworks is ever going to fix this bug... It is present since R2014b... it is easily reproducible (every exported eps has some messed up fonts)... and I'm pretty sure R2016a will continue to have the bug. Come on Mathworks! Fix the damn bug!
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Corina
am 20 Jul. 2016
I have the same issue with Matlab R2014b. It also applies when using the Latex Interpreter in the Legend fields. Super annoying :(. I haven't found any workaround for it.
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