| Re: Getting nice printed output [message #10368 is a reply to message #10364] |
Fri, 14 November 1997 00:00   |
davidf
Messages: 2866
Registered: September 1996
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Alright, I was having a bad day when I wrote this:
> I got a brand new printer today, having been thinking for
> awhile that my printer problems were related to my extremely
> reliable, but hopelessly outdated Apple Personal Laserwriter.
>
> This one has 36 MBytes of RAM, and is fast, fast, fast.
>
> 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. :-(
Just about the time I hit the SEND button on that message
I remembered that I had to download a new PostScript driver
for the printer. Wanting to be fair, I thought I would give
the PRINTER device another chance to impress me.
Well...
I used my XPlot program, which is just a simple line plot.
After I hit the Print button I waited 53 seconds with the
Dialog_Printer dialog staring at me. I waited another
2:39 for something to come out of my fast printer. But,
it did come out with no virtual memory overflow or any
other error messages. The PRINTER device is doing something
right.
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. :-)
Cheers,
David
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David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting
E-Mail: davidf@dfanning.com
Phone: 970-221-0438
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/
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