Editable text in exported svg plots
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I am trying to estabilish the most efficient workflow for exporting matlab plots, finetuning them in a vector graphics editor, and including them in scientific publications. My plan was to export the plots as .svg using saveas or print commands and then do the finetuning in Inkscape. Unfortunately the text (in figure titles, ticks, legend, etc.) is exported as curves and cannot be edited.
Here are a few things that I have tried:
- using plot2svg - unfortunately the most of my plots are of the errorbar type. plot2svg doesn't seem to be able to handle those.
- experimenting with saveas, print, and saving manually using 'File>Save as' in the figure window - all of these give the same result
- exporting the figures as pdf or eps and opening them in inkscape - the text IS exported as text objects, however editing acts funny in Inkscape. When typing, the characters stack on top of each other.
Has anyone experienced and resolved this issue? Is there any other way how to get easily editable svg files?
I tried to attach my svg file, but apparently it is not supported by Matlab Central. I've added the pdf instead.
Thanks!
Martin
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David Burghoff
on 1 Feb 2022
Edited: David Burghoff
on 1 Feb 2022
(I know it has been some time since you asked, but I thought it could benefit someone else.)
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