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Re: Wanted: colour table good for high contrast grayscale output [message #11187]

Mon, 09 March 1998 00:00

David Foster
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Registered: January 1996

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Iarla Kilbane-Dawe wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Does anybody know of a colour table that prints well with high contrast
> between steps when output to a grayscale printer?
>
> I'm generating image from atmospheric data and would like to use a table
> that allows me to easily distinguish steps in the colour scale when
> printed on our monochrome laser printer. To make matter worse, the images
> contain a lot of detail.
>
> Does anyone have any advice? Thanks is advance.
>
> Iarla.

Iarla -

I would suggest modifying the grayscale. You can use IDL's STRETCH(),
but it would be easier to use my GRAYSCALE.PRO that allows you to
use sliders. This can be run by itself or as a popup from within
another module. You can download it from:

ftp://bial8.ucsd.edu pub/software/idl/share/idl_share.tar.gz

Hope this helps!

Dave
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		Re: Wanted: colour table good for high contrast grayscale output By: David Foster on Mon, 09 March 1998 00:00
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