| Funky fonts and PostScript [message #15925] |
Thu, 17 June 1999 00:00 |
Grady Daub
Messages: 22
Registered: June 1999
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Vector draw fonts are not so pretty when drawn to the monitor. They are
rather funky looking.
Eventually, I will be printing all the nice plots I am making for
publication or conference over-head projecting. What I've been doing to
save the plots is
WRITE_GIF,"name.gif",tvrd(),r,g,b
The problem is that doing this, the words in the picture (captions.
titles, etc.) are still funky looking. I could use hardware fonts, but,
it seems cumbersome to pick the right sized font to fit different sized
windows, since, CHARSIZE isn't doesn't work with hardware fonts. :-(
Also, hardware fonts don't rotate to fit between crooked contour lines,
so, I'll not be using them for plotting, only for titles, etc.
Is there a read-made hardware font/font size picker procedure for IDL?
Would vector drawn fonts look non-funky in postscript? Is it much harder
to do everything in postscript, rather than the way I've been doing it?
Can I even use vector drawn fonts with postscript? I am, of course,
assuming that color contour/bar/line plots can be done with postscript.
-Grady Daub
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