| Re: Getting nice printed output [message #10364] |
Mon, 17 November 1997 00:00  |
Simon Moore
Messages: 2
Registered: August 1997
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David Fanning wrote in message ...
[snip]
>> Imagine my surprise, then, when I tried to print out a simple
>> little object graphics program as the first "test case".
>> I waited for about 5 minutes before windows started to shut
>> down, my virtual memory was overflowing, and I started getting
>> cryptic error messages from IDL. I finally had to leave to
>> go get the kids. I never did get anything out of the damn
>> printer.
>>
>> Frankly, I've just about given up on the PRINTER device. :-(
[snip]
Hmmm, well you're not the only one having printing problems using object
graphics:
I've tried both a HP4+ (default NT driver) and HP5 (HP's own driver) under
both NT4.0 SP2 & SP3, using both IDL5.0 & 5.02.
I have never yet succeeded in getting PCL output from any combination of the
above - I tend to give up when IDL has grabbed 80Mb of virtual memory and my
system has stopped responding to user input. I can (just) get Postscript
output, so long as I use Dialog_PrinterSetup, not Dialog_PrintJob.
I did once send a bug report to FPS (RSI's UK arm) and the gist of the reply
was "Interesting, but we've never had any problem" ...
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> The output...well, the annotations are nice. :-) But the
> page used half my toner to get the gray background color
> and the plot and axes lines have disappeared. The lesson
> for the day: forget all that fancy graphics stuff and draw
> black on white if you are sending stuff to the PRINTER device.
> I'll bet it would have looked great if I had been able to
> convince my wife to let me get that color PostScript printer
> I wanted. :-)
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I'd say the problem seems to be with line thicknesses - the plot lines and
axes do seem to be there, just VERY thin.
Sometimes there is no option but to use colour - and IDL's colour PS (at
least pre-object graphics) is very good.
Simon
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