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description: Messages from Usenet group comp.lang.idl-pvwave, compiled by Paulo Penteado
items: Configuring XPrinter

Configuring XPrinter
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description: I am going to make one more try at using the XPrinter printing system. I do this every few years whenever I miss the feeling of being intensely frustrated. Let me start with something very simple. I am running IDL 6.4 on Mac OS X 10.5. To have a clean slate I move my .XPrinterDefaults to a new file and start IDL. I create an iTool with iSurface, DIST(50) and then select Print from the File menu. The default output is EPSF to the file xprinter.eps. I use all the defaults and click OK. An EPS file (xprinter.eps) appears in my home directory. I open it, and unlike the onscreen graphic, it is grayscale. No color. I would be delighted to get EPS output, but I need color. There is no obvious way to turn color on in the Print dialog box. Is it possible to create color EPSF output? If so, how? Thanks, Ken Bowman
creator: Kenneth P. Bowman
date: 2008-02-22T14:39:14-00:00