PDF's not working in LATEX

Question

I was not sure if I should ask this on Mathematica or LATEX or here.

I am very new to LATEX and using \includegraphics to put images into my paper. I am using plots generated in Mathematica as PDF's. After I compile the tex file and get a PDF the plots look nice but the labels for the X and Y axis are missing.

I have added \pdfoptionpdfminorversion 6 to my preamble because I was getting an error about the version of the PDF's. The error is gone but still no labels.

Any thoughts? Ben

Answer 1

I guess the PDF generated by Mathematica contains the labels correctly, but after including them in the *.tex file and compiling it, the labels are gone, right?

Does it help to put as first line of the tex-file the command \pdfinclusioncopyfonts=1?  

By the way, usually PDFs are included using the package pdfpages, please read the manual. You get it after typing texdoc pdfpages on the commandline. OK, if you use texlive. With miktex I forgot.

Answer 2

There are some good Q / A's about this topic on Mathematica, here, here and here. Anyway, in Mathematica you have to include the "FontFamily" with "BaseStyle" and you have to do a clean export. See Example;

plotWithLegend = 
  ListPlot[Table[f, {f, {Sin[x], Cos[x]}}, {x, 0, 2 \[Pi], 0.1}], 
   Frame -> True, PlotLegends -> {"sin(x)", "cos(x)"}, 
   FrameLabel -> "Frame label font size is about 8 pt", 
   ImageSize -> 200, 
   BaseStyle -> {FontFamily -> "Times", FontWeight -> "Bold", 
     FontSize -> 12}];
Export["plotWithLegend.pdf", plotWithLegend]

Runs well on OSX with latexmk

\documentclass[11pt, oneside]{article}                          
\usepackage{graphicx}               
\title{Brief Article}
\author{The Author}

\begin{document}

\begin{figure}[htbp]
   \centering
   \includegraphics[width=4in]{plotWithLegend.pdf} 
   \caption{example caption}
   \label{fig:example}
\end{figure}

\end{document}