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Re: New to IDL and having troubles [message #15952]

Fri, 25 June 1999 00:00

Med Bennett
Messages: 109
Registered: April 1997

Senior Member

Be sure to do a 'device,/close' command after issuing your postscript
commands. If you don't, the file is still open, and printing it will often
give you only partial or garbled output.

Kurki wrote:

> I looked for a FAQ regarding this NG and didn't find one, so I'm going
> to just jump right in --
>
> I was just introduced to IDL last week and given a few *.pro files that
> gereated postscript files of graphs from external data files and I was
> told to modify one of them to display my data -- well, no such luck. I
> did get to the point of have about 2/3 of one of the plots on my graph.
> The situation is this -- I have a file with 6 space delimited colums and
> 126 rows. I want to plot the column 1 vs. column 3 and column 5. Most
> of the time I'm just getting one axis and maybe the title of the graph
> in my postscript file.
>
> My boss gave me a few books, including the "Using IDL" manual and I read
> the chapter on graphing and tried to do some of thier examples, but they
> didn't work for me either!
>
> Now, I'm not new programming (I'm also not a serious programmer, but I
> can get by) and this is frustrating the heck out of me. Does anybody
> know what might be wrong?
>
> Thanks for any help you can giv
>
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> Share what you know. Learn what you don't.

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		Re: New to IDL and having troubles By: Med Bennett on Fri, 25 June 1999 00:00
		Re: New to IDL and having troubles By: Martin Schultz on Tue, 22 June 1999 00:00
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