| Re: Screen Printing [message #16099 is a reply to message #15839] |
Mon, 28 June 1999 00:00  |
David Foster
Messages: 341
Registered: January 1996
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your name wrote:
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> It's me again ( I'm not really "enter your name" - see below).
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> I previously posted a request on obtaining a screen dump of several draw
> widgets. This was answered by David Foster, complete with an IDL routine
> to print a window.
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> Unfortunately, David, this routine only works for a single draw widget
> window and I have several such widgets all required on one sheet of
> A4!!!
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> <snip of some example code>
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> Surely it should be possible for IDL to "dump" a whole screen to a
> file/printer.
> After all, with RETAIN=2, IDL keeps a screen map in its memory why not
> use this?
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> If anybody has a better workaround for this, I'd be very grateful.
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> Regards,
> Ian
Ian -
I don't know of a way to do this in IDL. There are two other
approaches I can think of:
1. Use a screen-grabbing utility (eg. Snapshot in Solaris, or
XV for most UNIXes).
2. Save each window to a separate PS file, and use a Postscript
utility to combine these into one page.
Dave Foster
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(619) 622-5892 8950 Via La Jolla Drive, Suite 2240
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