Re: Epstopdf and Lucida fonts in labels

Hi Laurence F. and all,


 > Wrong...It is output by MP itself.

With "prologues:=2"
as required for eps output???

With that setting, Distiller should have responded
correctly to the resulting MP output. On the other hand, my
GhostView does not give the bounding box EPS commant the
blindest bit of attention.

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 > I hope you don't mind if I take the liberty of asking you
 > whether there's an algebraic formula for the curve on a plane
 > of projection representing the perspective projection of a
 > circle. (I may take to button-holing mathematicians on the
 > street.)

On the image plane it is a conic section, ie an ellipse, a
parabola, or hyperbola. 

The image on the retina of the observer is an ellipse or part
thereof.

What sort of formulae do you want? Bezier or Nurbs? Implicit or
Parametric? With respect to which coordinate system?  For such
nitty gritty, I'll probably defer to the
comp.graphics.algorithms newsgroup where the full time experts
lurk.

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 > I haven't had any problems with labels using MP the way I do.

One problem is that you are chained to dvips. Or to mptopdf.
TeX label overlays let one use any TeX implementation.
On my classic Mac it is not the dvips implementations that
have the most comfortable and adequate type1 font setup.
And I fear that mptopdf is simply not implemented.

 > I admit that I _hate_ it when MP fails because of an error in a
 > label string.

Because the processing is diabolically complex.  With TeX label
overlays it's your most familiar TeX setup at work.

Cheers,

Laurent S.