Embed an eps image in a graph

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Tue, 02/28/2017 - 10:52 am

Hi all!

I have been trying to embed an externally generated eps file within a graph.

Is there a way to embed it so that the eps image is not rasterized?

best,
_sk
I think you are just seeing the embedded preview image. (You diid not give us any system or igor info.)

Try exporting the graph to EPS and then open that in a program that understands EPS (on Mac, that would include Preview.app.)


Larry Hutchinson
WaveMetrics
support@WaveMetrics.com

March 4, 2017 at 11:59 am - Permalink

Larry Hutchinson wrote:
I think you are just seeing the embedded preview image. (You diid not give us any system or igor info.)

Try exporting the graph to EPS and then open that in a program that understands EPS (on Mac, that would include Preview.app.)


Larry Hutchinson
WaveMetrics
support@WaveMetrics.com



Hi!

The graph is properly exported to EPS. I can successfully import it and interact with it vectorially in inkscape (0.92, Windows 32bit). But whether I import any eps into the draw layer or as a picture annotation, the displayed image is clearly a rasterized version of the eps (attached screenshot).

print igorinfo(0)
  IGORVERS:6.38;IGORKIND:pro;FREEMEM:1850052608;NSCREENS:1;SCREEN1:DEPTH=32,RECT=0,0,1920,1080;


Thanks for looking into it.

best,
_sk
screenshot-170306.png

March 6, 2017 at 12:39 am - Permalink

johnweeks wrote:
On screen, Igor is showing you a bitmap preview image from the EPS. What does it look like when you print it?

John Weeks
WaveMetrics, Inc.
support@wavemetrics.com


This doesn't seem to be the case:

Saving to a png: shows the rasterized embedded eps (Graph00_saved.png).
Saving to a pdf: shows a gray square (Graph00_saved.pdf)
Printing to a pdf printer (adobe distiller): doesn't show the graph (Graph00_printed.pdf)
Printing to a hardware printer: shows rasterized annotation graph (Graph00_scanned.pdf).

Importing Graph00_saved.pdf and Graph00_printed.pdf into a vector editor (Inkscape, 0.92): includes empty placeholder rectangles for the annotation graph.

Does including eps images as annotations, externally generated or even ones generated in Igor, work on your end?
Is this the proper way of including eps files into a graph, as annotations compared to into the draw layer (i.e.: TextBox/C/N=text0/F=0/A=MC "\\$PICT$name=Graph0_eps$/PICT$")?

best,
_sk

edit: I should've said that the exported eps (graph0.eps) is properly importend into Inkscape.
Graph00_scanned.pdf Graph00_saved.png Graph00_printed.pdf Graph00_saved.pdf Graph0.eps_.pdf

March 7, 2017 at 12:48 am - Permalink