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"import pandas as pd\n",
"import matplotlib.pyplot as plt\n",
"%matplotlib inline"
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"## Getting set up to export text correctly\n",
"\n",
"If you're exporting text, you need to make sure `matplotlib` is exporting **editable** text, otherwise Illustrator will treat every single character as a shape instead of text. By default `matplotlib` exports \"Type 3 fonts\" which Adobe Illustrator doesn't understand, so you need to change matplotlib to export **Type 2/TrueType fonts**.\n",
"\n",
"This setting is, for some reason, the number `42`. Run this once at the top of your code and you'll be set for everything else in the script/notebook."
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"metadata": {
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"source": [
"import matplotlib\n",
"matplotlib.rcParams['pdf.fonttype'] = 42\n",
"matplotlib.rcParams['ps.fonttype'] = 42"
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"metadata": {},
"source": [
"If you don't want to type this all of the time (which you shouldn't), there is a solution! Run the following code **from the command line** - it creates a `matplotlib` startup file that will run the above commands every time `matplotlib` is started.\n",
"\n",
"````bash\n",
"mkdir -p ~/.matplotlib\n",
"echo 'pdf.fonttype: 42' >> ~/.matplotlib/matplotlibrc\n",
"echo 'ps.fonttype: 42' >> ~/.matplotlib/matplotlibrc\n",
"````"
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"source": [
"## Reading in our data"
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