Graphics Reference
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Editing a Vector Output File
Problem
You want to open a vector output file for final editing.
Solution
Sometimes you need to make final tweaks to the appearance of a graph for presentation. You
can open PDF and SVG files with the excellent free program Inkscape, or with the commercial
program Adobe Illustrator.
Discussion
Font support can be a problem when you open a PDF file with Inkscape. Normally, point objects
drawn with the PDF device will be written as symbols from the Zapf Dingbats font. This can
be problematic if you want to open the file in an editor like Illustrator or Inkscape; for example,
points may appear as the letter q, as in
Figure 14-1
, because that is the corresponding letter for
a solid bullet in Zapf Dingbats.
