| Re: Device driver for framemaker interchange format [message #1752] |
Wed, 09 February 1994 17:30 |
geomagic
Messages: 22
Registered: November 1993
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In article <1994Feb9.194931.12618@ll.mit.edu> knight@ll.mit.edu (Fred Knight) writes:
> Many people here use framemaker to produce pretty documents.
> Currently, in order to incorporate IDL plots, we write PostScript
> files and import them into framemaker. Using the IDL command:
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> device,/preview
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> gives framemaker a low-resolution rendition of the IDL plot to view on the
> screen before the document is printed. However, we are unable to alter the
> plot within framemaker; all we can do is embellish it. A better method of
> incorporating the IDL plots would be to use the "make interchange format."
> If IDL would produce a plot in make interchange format, then, in
> framemaker, we could alter the plot, making it easier to produce
> annotations.
>
> All this leads to the question: Has anyone written an IDL device
> driver for maker interchange format?
I use the CGM device. For instance for black and while line drawings
I use:
set_plot,'cgm'
!p.font=0
device,colors=2
!p.color=0
!p.background=1
erase
<plot commands >
device,/close
I then use the framemaker filter
cgmtomif -M idl.cgm idl.mif
You can modify the number of colors if you are making images, etc, and
would omit -M in the cgmtomif line.
BTW, is version 3.5 worth the upgrade and are you using version 4 of
framemaker?
Dan O'Connell
geomagic@seismo.do.usbr.gov
Seismotectonics Group, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation
Denver Federal Center, P.O. Box 25007 D-3611, Denver, CO 80225
"We do custom earthquakes (for food)"
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