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Using Adobe Illustrator, why can't I see minus signs in an eps file exported from MATLAB?

Date Last Modified: Friday, June 26, 2009

Solution ID:		1-19LQF
Product:		MATLAB
Reported in Release:		R12.1
Platform:		All Platforms
Operating System:		All OS

 

Subject:

Using Adobe Illustrator, why can't I see minus signs in an eps file exported from MATLAB?

Problem Description:

Using Adobe Illustrator, why can't I see minus signs in an eps file exported from MATLAB?

I have tried the following:

x = -2*pi:.1:2*pi ; plot( x , sin( x ) )
print -deps sinFigure

In the eps-file there are no minus signs. I have viewed it with Adobe Illustrator.

Solution: This has been forwarded to our development staff to be addressed in a future release of MATLAB. This appears to be a problem with the way that Adobe Illustrator reads in eps files. Other eps file readers, like GSView, read the generated file with the minus signs intact. As a work around for Adobe Illustrator, please print your figure using this command print -depsc2 -adobecset

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