Category: Software for manuscripts and figures

• Hidden Illustrator layers show up in PDF files when reading in non-Adobe Reader: solution

  Invisible layers will magically reappear when an Illustrator PDF is loaded in certain non-Adobe products (for example, the Mac PDF reader Preview). To avoid this issue, deselect “Preserve Illustrator Editing Capability” and “Create Acrobat Layers from top-level Layers” in the Save Adobe PDF dialog that pops up after choosing Save A Copy… from the File […]

  May 7, 2010

• Getting a plot with transparency to export in a vector format (e.g. eps) in Matlab

  If you have a plot where one of the objects has the property facealpha or edgealpha set to something else than 1, Matlab will choke when attempting to export the figure to eps (it will render the plot as a low-res bitmap and stick it in an eps file if you use exportfig). The solution: […]

  December 3, 2009