@jakebeal In my field (chemistry/physics), I know of no journal, which would allow for self-formatted tables as graphics, since they want consistent formatting. It's not even an option and I see no reason why it should be.

Why is the title of the question about tables, while the body is about graphics? One of them should be changed. For tables, I have never seen a journal, that does not give you a guideline on how to submit them. In the end, the copy-editors of the journal will always make the final tables themselves. For graphics it's a whole different story.

@IanSudbery actually, I don't see, why the same text is a problem. For preprints, that is also no problem

@IanSudbery while it is probably really perfectly normal, there seem to be cases, where it is not applied: academia.stackexchange.com/questions/151308/…

@AnonymousPhysicist I mentioned the other questions now, yet I think that they are both different from mine.