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Re: PostScript and IDL, [message #11849 is a reply to message #11805]

Fri, 29 May 1998 00:00

Mark Hadfield
Messages: 783
Registered: May 1995

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David Fanning writes

> The big issue for us is what tradeoffs are users willing
> to make in order to get scalable PostScript output. They
> will have to give up speed/memory/filesize or WYSIWYG to
> get the type of PS they are looking for....

Thanks David, this is the first indication I have seen of WHY Object
Graphics printer output is done the way it is.

Many IDL users (eg myself) don't (yet) understand the issues here. Some of
use spend most of our time in IDL generating flat line graphs, where these
issues don't really arise. (We don't use IDL for this purpose because it's
particularly good at generating flat line graphs, but because it's so good
at generating numbers.) The message we want to get across to RSI technical
and marketing staff is that we DO want scalable, embeddable Postscript
output SOMEHOW.

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Mark Hadfield, m.hadfield@niwa.cri.nz http://www.niwa.cri.nz/~hadfield/
National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research
PO Box 14-901, Wellington, New Zealand

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		PostScript and IDL, By: root on Tue, 26 May 1998 00:00
		Re: PostScript and IDL, By: root on Fri, 29 May 1998 00:00
		Re: PostScript and IDL, By: Mark Hadfield on Fri, 29 May 1998 00:00
		Re: PostScript and IDL, By: thompson on Thu, 28 May 1998 00:00
		Re: PostScript and IDL, By: wmc on Thu, 28 May 1998 00:00
		Re: PostScript and IDL, By: steinhh on Thu, 28 May 1998 00:00
		Re: PostScript and IDL, By: Mark Hadfield on Thu, 28 May 1998 00:00
		Re: PostScript and IDL, By: woodford on Wed, 27 May 1998 00:00
		Re: PostScript and IDL By: Mike Schienle on Wed, 27 May 1998 00:00
		Re: PostScript and IDL, By: Struan Gray on Wed, 27 May 1998 00:00

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