From: Eric Durant <edurant@umich.edu>
Subject: Printing GUI to EPS: Bitmapped widget fonts
Date: 01 May 2000 00:00:00 GMT
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When printing a GUI to an EPS file (e.g., `print -depsc2 -tiff -f1'),
Matlab 5.3.1 R11.1 renders the fonts on widgets (text boxes,
buttons, etc.) as bitmaps, producing ugly printed output.  Text
on plots in the GUI using the same font ('Helvetica', in this
case) is rendered in the proper Postscript font.  Examining the
Postscript output verifies that Matlab produces bitmap code for
the widgets, and regular text/scalable font code for the plot
labels.

I can't find anything about this in the Matlab documentation.
In Volume 2 of ``MATLAB Function Reference'' (Version 5), the
``Printing MATLAB GUIs'' section on page 2-374 discusses some
related issues, but doesn't cover this problem.

Does anyone know of a workaround?

-- Eric Durant
   http://www.edurant.com/