Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ gnuplot infinity symbol with eps figures in latex

[santino]

Hi... I am running Ubuntu 10.04.1, Gnuplot Version 4.2 and texlive 2009

I have produced an eps image in gnuplot with:
set terminal postscript eps enhanced colour lw 4 "Times New Roman" 20

including the infinity symbol with:
{/Symbol \245}

and the initial output looks great. My problem is when I include this image in my latex file within the figure environment using the includegraphics command, the infinity symbol turns into a degree symbol. This appears to be a function of pdfTeX, in that the dvi and ps files retain the infinity symbol. I am using a build of dvips+ps2pdf.

I will need the pdf version for uploading the publication, so any help is appreciated. I have attached the log file, if it helps.

log.log

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Thank you in advance.

[shadgrind]

It works fine for me, using TeX Live 2009 on Fedora 13 (I also used "Times-New-Roman" instead of "Times New Roman" in the Gnuplot set terminal command). Are you embedding the fonts when you convert from ps to pdf? If not then you could be getting font substitution in the pdf file, which may be your problem. I always run ps2pdf like this to get proper font embedding:

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ps2pdf14 -dMaxSubsetPct=100 -dSubsetFonts=true -dEmbedAllFonts=true -dPDFSETTINGS=/printer

If you open the pdf file in a viewer like Acrobat Reader and go to File->Properties->Fonts, you should see font names with "(Embedded Subset)" next to them if the fonts were properly embedded.

[santino]

Thanks shadgrind,

It was just that an embedding problem... I also used

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pdftops -eps

and

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ps2eps

as well just to get back to eps format, which I prefer to use in the tex file.

Cheers

[localghost]

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