| printing to postscript with PV_WAVE [message #891] |
Wed, 31 March 1993 09:22  |
worth
Messages: 3
Registered: March 1992
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Does anyone know of an easy way to print the plot that you have
on your X-display? I know how to plot to Postscript, but my real
problem is those times when you work on adding little things to
plots and then want a hard copy and there is no way to just
zap what is already on the screen. Any help would be appreciated.
--
Doug Worth -- worth@acuson.com (worth@sono.sun.com, ..!sun!sono!worth)
415-694-5653
DISCLAIMER:: All thoughts and ideas expressed are mine and not Acusons
Philosophy of Home Repair:: When all else fails....Get a bigger hammer
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| Re: Printing to postscript [message #11259 is a reply to message #891] |
Wed, 18 March 1998 00:00  |
wmc
Messages: 117
Registered: February 1995
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In article 519E@ukc.ac.uk, Jon Marchant <jmm@ukc.ac.uk> writes:
> I've currently got IDL to print encapsulated postscript
> files, but when printed out the colour (grey) range isn't
> as large as it should be, i.e. it goes from black to medium
> grey instead of black to white. I've checked the data and the
> code, the full range of the colour table should definitely be
> in the graphs, and indeed is apparent when the same plot is
> sent to the screen. Does anyone have any idea what's going
> wrong?
A suggestion: if you just set_plot,'ps' then you are assigned the default
ps colour table; if you want ps to use the colour table you are using for
on-screen work then you need to say ?device,/col? or somesuch. Another
suggestion: when plotting to the screen, you often have only, say, 170 colours
available; so colour indices 0...169 are (say) black to white. If you switch to
ps, you have 256 colours available, so 0...169 no longer span the full range.
- William
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William M Connolley | wmc@bas.ac.uk | http://www.nbs.ac.uk/public/icd/wmc/
Climate Modeller, British Antarctic Survey | Disclaimer: I speak for myself
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| Re: Printing to postscript [message #11262 is a reply to message #891] |
Tue, 17 March 1998 00:00 |
woodford
Messages: 10
Registered: June 1996
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In article <350EB730.519E@ukc.ac.uk>, Jon Marchant <jmm@ukc.ac.uk> wrote:
> Also, as these are quite large arrays I'm printing, the eps
> files are huge (2MB plus); is there no alternative to eps
> for importing graphs into word?
Does IDL use level 2 postscript? It has some sort of compression feature
that level 1 lacks, and I've found this makes a big difference when
creating EPS images in matlab.
Paul
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