This question is similar to the one here. The accepted answer there seems to be working in general, I get a readable .eps
-file. If I open it however it looks pixelated and the fonts seem weird.
At compilation I receive a notification saying
Config Error: No display font for 'Symbol'
Config Error: No display font for 'ZapfDingbats'
The pdf created seems just fine to me, for use in other documents I would need an .eps
-file though. I can of course manually convert the pdf-files, but as there are many I would like to automate the process if possible.
I am running Windows 8 with MikTeX portable and use pdflatex
.
EDIT:
I decided to include a MWE
here:
\documentclass[11pt,a4paper]{scrartcl}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\pgfplotsset{compat=1.12}
\usetikzlibrary{external}
\tikzset{external/system call={pdflatex \tikzexternalcheckshellescape
-halt-on-error
-interaction=batchmode
-jobname "\image" "\texsource"
&& pdftops -eps "\image.pdf"}}
\tikzexternalize[shell escape=-enable-write18]
\begin{document}
\tikzsetnextfilename{pic1}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\begin{axis}
\addplot[very thick] coordinates {(0,0)(1,1)};
\end{axis}
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}
The execution command is
pdflatex -synctex=1 -interaction=nonstopmode -shell-escape %.tex
That does run through and creates a .pdf
file that is just fine (document file as well as the figure itself) and an .eps
file, which is pixelated as described above.
Thank you very much for your help!