How do I generate graphics that don’t reference Mathematica’s special fonts?

The text in Mathematica graphics are automatically formatted in StandardForm.

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To render this graphic, the special Mathematica fonts are required. You can use the FormatType option to set the format of type to be OutputForm instead.

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You may want to do this if you are exporting graphics to EPS files.

http://support.wolfram.com/mathematica/graphics/export/exporteps4.html

For example, regular parenthesis ( and ) and square brackets [ and ] are displayed using characters from Mathematica fonts when using StandardForm. If you are not using any special typesetting rules in your text and only using parentheses, brackets, and other arithematic operators, you might find it more convenient to avoid requiring the Mathematica fonts in the EPS file.

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An EPS file generated from the above commands does not require the special Mathematica fonts.

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