Cannot edit text in chart exported by Matplotlib and opened in Illustrator

I am exporting charts from matplotlib and editing them in Illustrator. It's great that I can edit the lines, but the text also comes in as lines, so I cannot change fonts, edit text, etc. I've exported as EPS, PDF, and PS with the same issues.

I'm using matplotlib version 1.0.1 with python 2.7.1 on OSX Snow Leaopard.

I appreciate any insights offered! I tried using pdf2ps as suggested here, b开发者_开发知识库ut all that did was degrade the quality of the image without making the text rendered as real text. pdftops looked nicer, but still can't edit the text results.

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You can edit the text in Acrobat/Illustrator if you set pdf.fonttype to 42 (TrueType), and export in pdf. You can set this in your ~/matplotlib/matplotlibrc:

pdf.fonttype : 42 # Output Type 3 (Type3) or Type 42 (TrueType)

..or dynamically:

>>> import matplotlib as mpl
>>> mpl.rcParams['pdf.fonttype'] = 42

Apparently it defaults to Type3 which Acrobat/Illustrator can't deal with.