eps export and LaTeX psfrag

[helen]

Hello,

I'm trying to use openoffice.org draw to draw figures, export them as eps, and then put them into a LaTeX document. I want to use psfrag to replace some of the words in the figures with LaTeX symbols, but it's not working. For example, I want to replace the word "alpha" in the figure, with the LaTeX symbol $\alpha$.

I don't know much about eps, but it appears that OOo is not exporting the word "alpha" anywhere in the resulting eps file (which doesn't explain to me how the word "alpha" shows up in the figure, but anyway). I tried using one letter tags for psfrag, incase OOo breaks up the letters of a word when it exports to eps. But that doesn't work either.

Has anyone done this successfully? Can anyone suggest a solution?

Thanks,

helen

[Cobalt]

I have the same problem with OpenOffice 1.1. The .eps files produced by OOo apparently do not work with LaTex's psfrag (in contrast to the .eps files produced by the Xfig drawing program).

I feel very comfortable with OOo Draw. Since it is under active development, (unlike Xfig, it seems), hopefully the problem will be fixed.

Also the pdf export option of OOo Draw does not crop the image, even though the eps export option does. So instead of it I had to use epstopdf.

[DannyB]

[mayhew]

I seem to have found a solution to this problem here:
http://www.mail-archive.com/users@openoffice.org/msg66714.html

From what I gather, OpenOffice used to have an option on the EPS export window of how the user would like the text to be rendered - as text or curves. Now, it appears that this option has disappeared; however, one only needs to edit the EPS export filter in the following way:

Just look for
"C:\Documents and Settings\USER
NAME\Applicationdata\OpenOffice.org2\user\registry\data\org\openoffice\Office\Common.xcu"
and change the following lines

<node oor:name="Filter">
<node oor:name="Graphic">
<node oor:name="Export">
<node oor:name="EPS">
<prop oor:name="ColorFormat" oor:type="xs:int">
<value>1</value>
</prop>
<prop oor:name="Version" oor:type="xs:int">
<value>2</value>
</node>
</node>
</node>
</node>

to make it look like this

<node oor:name="Filter">
<node oor:name="Graphic">
<node oor:name="Export">
<node oor:name="EPS">
<prop oor:name="ColorFormat" oor:type="xs:int">
<value>1</value>
</prop>
<prop oor:name="Version" oor:type="xs:int">
<value>2</value>
</prop>
<prop oor:name="TextMode" oor:type="xs:int">
<value>2</value>
</prop>
</node>
</node>
</node>
</node>

You will need to completely restart OpenOffice for the changes to take effect. I have tested this with success. Don't forget to backup the old Common.xcu in case you make a mistake editing!

[jlperla]

It seems that the latest version of OpenOffice has a different method for handling the setup files. Does anyone know how to do this EPS workaround with the new version?

[jlperla]

I found something that seemed to work in LibreOffice 3.3 but not in OpenOffice 3.3.

I may have solved my own problem and found the new setting.  Try the following:

* Open the file "C:\Program Files (x86)\LibreOffice 3\Basis\share\registry\main.xcd" in a text editor
* Use the Find and Replace feature in your editor.
Find:

EPS"><prop oor:name="Preview" oor:type="xs:int"><value>0</value></prop><prop oor:name="Version" oor:type="xs:int"><value>2</value></prop><prop oor:name="ColorFormat" oor:type="xs:int"><value>2</value></prop><prop oor:name="CompressionMode" oor:type="xs:int"><value>2</value></prop><prop oor:name="TextMode" oor:type="xs:int"><value>0

Replace with:

EPS"><prop oor:name="Preview" oor:type="xs:int"><value>0</value></prop><prop oor:name="Version" oor:type="xs:int"><value>2</value></prop><prop oor:name="ColorFormat" oor:type="xs:int"><value>2</value></prop><prop oor:name="CompressionMode" oor:type="xs:int"><value>2</value></prop><prop oor:name="TextMode" oor:type="xs:int"><value>2

* Restart LibreOffice


... I think I may be changing over to LibreOffice.

[BMN]

[cawhittle]

The last person to reply wrote, "2.) Open C:\Users\YOUR_USER_NAME\AppData\Roaming\OpenOffice.org\3\user\registrymodifications.xcu and add the following code before such a textfragment: <item ...."

What "textfragment"? I tried this, and it didn't work, but I wasn't sure where to put it in the registrymodifications.xcu file. And I tried just pasting the part after "Code", and then when that didn't work, typing "</item>" before the pasted text and "</node>" after the pasted text. I'm frustrated.

Thank you for your help!