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Re: Print Euro symbol

Thomas — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 20:56:23 -0400

Finally, I found a solution by switching to symbol font.

To get a PDF with a figure containing the string "Less than
10€ per piece." the following code could be used:

% --------------------------
fh = figure;
text(fh,0.5,0.5,strcat('Less than 10\fontname{Symbol}',char
(160),'\fontname{Helvetica}per piece.');
print(fh,'-dpsc2','test.ps');
% --------------------------

Finally, the postscript file "test.ps" needs to be
distilled to PDF.

The '€' symbol will not be displayed in the MATLAB figure
but it will show up in the PDF.

(The archaic printer driver functions of MATLAB are
hopelessly outdated. The use of Unicode encoding and system
available fonts in graphics is standard elsewhere.)

Re: Print Euro symbol

Thomas — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 21:51:12 -0400

Thank you for your prompt answer.
Your solution works when I print the figure directly in
verbose mode. Though, it fails when I try to print it
(figure handle fh) to a file using

print(fh,'-dpsc2','test.ps');

After distilling it to PDF the Euro symbol is gone. Any
idea how could this be solved?

"us " <us@neurol.unizh.ch> wrote in message <fa51an$6
$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> Thomas:
> <SNIP a european...
>
> one of the solutions
>
> eu=sprintf('%c',8364);
> line(0:1,0:1);
> title(eu,...
> 'fontsize',32,...
> 'fontname','arial');
> text(.1,.5,eu,...
> 'fontsize',64,...
> 'fontname','courier new');
>
> us
>

Re: Print Euro symbol

us — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 20:44:07 -0400

Thomas:
<SNIP a european...

one of the solutions

     eu=sprintf('%c',8364);
     line(0:1,0:1);
     title(eu,...
          'fontsize',32,...
          'fontname','arial');
     text(.1,.5,eu,...
          'fontsize',64,...
          'fontname','courier new');

us

Print Euro symbol

Thomas — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 20:10:17 -0400

Hello,

does anybody know how to include an Euro symbol ('€') in a
figure and print it on a postscript printer?

Best regards
Thomas