MATLAB: Are Symbol Fonts not preserved when I export graphics in MuPAD to EPS format in MATLAB (R2011b)

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I change axes font to Symbols font. The font is properly rendered with Greek letters in MuPAD notebook. But it is converted to Helvetica when I export the graphic to EPS. I can verify this by opening the EPS file using an ASCIIi editor.

How can I enforce Symbol fonts in my exported EPS figures?

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This is indeed a bug in the EPS exporter. It does not handle the Symbol font correctly and there are some additional issues with non-ASCII characters.

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MATLAB: Are Russian characters published as “####” in PDF Format in MATLAB 7.13 (R2011b)

For Release 2012a (R2012a) and newer, this bug has been fixed. In order to correctly display any non-ASCII characters, the undocumented font option must be used:

publish('myScript.m','format','pdf','font','fontName');

This line will publish 'myScript' into a PDF file using the 'fontName' font. The font used must have the non-ASCII characters used in 'myScript'. For Russian characters, for example, using the 'Candara' font available in Windows 7. If this font is not available, a font with the necessary non-ASCII characters must be installed first.

For product releases prior to R2012a, read below for any possible bug workarounds:

There is a bug in MATLAB 7.13 (R2011b) in the way that PUBLISH handles foreign fonts for publishing PDFs. To work around this issue:

1) Edit the “fop_config.xml” files in the following two locations:

 $MATLABROOT\toolbox\shared\rptgen\@rpt_xml\@db_output
 $MATLABROOT\toolbox\matlab\codetools\private

Here $MATLABROOT is the MATLAB installation directory that can be found by executing the command MATLABROOT inside the MATLAB command window.

Locate the line that reads "</fonts>" within the “fop_config.xml” files and add the following line just before the "</fonts>" line.

 <auto-detect/>

2) From your MATLAB command window, open the “publish.m” file by using the following command:

edit publish.m

In this file, locate the line that reads the following:

addAttribute(styleDom,attributeSet,'color','blue')

Add the following lines after the above line in the “publish.m” file:

fontName = '''Arial''';
addVariable(styleDom,de,'body.font.family',fontName)
addVariable(styleDom,de,'dingbat.font.family',fontName)
addVariable(styleDom,de,'monospace.font.family',fontName)
addVariable(styleDom,de,'symbol.font.family',fontName)
addVariable(styleDom,de,'title.font.family',fontName)
addVariable(styleDom,de,'sans.font.family',fontName)

Publishing to PDF files should now work fine after restarting MATLAB.

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