tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13869903.post8145914154658564495..comments2024-03-29T02:45:10.096-05:00Comments on nanoscale views: Manageable-sized, LaTeX-happy .eps figuresDouglas Natelsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13340091255404229559noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13869903.post-23919179659138175452010-05-06T14:17:02.932-05:002010-05-06T14:17:02.932-05:00Hello Joel - In my extremely limited experience, t...Hello Joel - In my extremely limited experience, they didn't modify any figures. They do have pretty strict guidelines about what they want in terms of formatting. In the one case of a News&Views piece that I wrote for Nature Nano, I was actually surprised at how little they modified about my quick and dirty sketch illustration.Douglas Natelsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13340091255404229559noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13869903.post-62653311667617396322010-05-06T12:14:46.866-05:002010-05-06T12:14:46.866-05:00Out of curiosity (and as someone who is yet to pub...Out of curiosity (and as someone who is yet to publish in the much desired Nature journal family), how much tweaking do they do to your figures after acceptance? All of their figures are so very pretty and consistent, and I think it really sets them apart. Do they modify existing figures or request raw data?Joel Kellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04844525141112359095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13869903.post-14283696047060867582010-05-04T10:31:54.359-05:002010-05-04T10:31:54.359-05:00Huzzah! for the billed cost of producing a physica...Huzzah! for the billed cost of producing a physical thesis. It were as though the sum of degree-granting universities had never done it before, each time, and used lead type plus copper plate figures.<br /><br />Departments can boost their bottom lines by requiring two volumes: One in clear, the other a hex dump (no .zip or .gz compression allowed; image .bmp only - and then 1600 pixels/inch).Uncle Alhttp://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13869903.post-11926589602570825642010-05-03T07:09:44.826-05:002010-05-03T07:09:44.826-05:00I agree with the above comments; I thought direct ...I agree with the above comments; I thought direct production of pdf via pdflatex had long eclipsed using eps figures (and I presume dvips). I produce pdf figures directly from Matlab using a Matlab function I wrote that first uses the Matlab print command to produce an eps file, then uses eps2pdf (comes with modern TeXs) to produce a pdf. Looking at some figs from my last paper, a scatter plot with 1800 points results in a pdf file that is about 100 kb.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13869903.post-70360078189519328022010-05-03T06:55:37.019-05:002010-05-03T06:55:37.019-05:00Thanks for the interesting post, I've always s...Thanks for the interesting post, I've always struggled with Maple produced figures as they tend to be fairly large. I'll definitely be using some of the suggested software. I've used the pdf route too, and not found too many problems compared to the eps route.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13869903.post-43131768990937269522010-05-03T02:32:41.669-05:002010-05-03T02:32:41.669-05:00I've had trouble with various latex macros and...I've had trouble with various latex macros and compatibility with eps. For recent papers I've been going with PDFLaTeX which is also not ideal, but has not caused my computer to barf as much.Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14514301100480098429noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13869903.post-12224253275680032362010-05-03T01:02:45.299-05:002010-05-03T01:02:45.299-05:00In a similar spirit to the previous two comments, ...In a similar spirit to the previous two comments, if you're going the PDFLaTeX route, I can highly recommend pgfplots as a means of creating plots directly in a PDFLaTeX-able file. It's based on TikZ, which is an excellent drawing package (like pstricks, but for pdf).Joe Reneshttp://www.ugcs.net/~yukonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13869903.post-49477563416874503882010-05-02T22:52:34.489-05:002010-05-02T22:52:34.489-05:00nobody i knows uses eps anymore; everyone uses pdf...nobody i knows uses eps anymore; everyone uses pdf files. <br /><br />easy as pie.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13869903.post-60918453759105345692010-05-02T21:58:26.491-05:002010-05-02T21:58:26.491-05:00You can also include pdf figures in TeX as long as...You can also include pdf figures in TeX as long as you compile directly to pdf. In my experience it's easier to make economical pdf figures than economical eps figures.Zedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10623092831367861959noreply@blogger.com