Messages from Usenet group comp.lang.idl-pvwave, compiled by Paulo Penteado
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