| Re: thick = 2 and postscript output [message #25249] |
Fri, 01 June 2001 11:31  |
Martin Schultz
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davidf@dfanning.com (David Fanning) writes:
> Martin Schultz (martin.schultz@dkrz.de) writes:
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>> BTW: my preferred factor is 2.5 ;-)
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> When did you guys buy your PostScript printer, 1972!? :-)
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No, 2000. But we are working with colors ;-)
Martin
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| Re: thick = 2 and postscript output [message #25257 is a reply to message #25249] |
Fri, 01 June 2001 05:43  |
Craig Markwardt
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"Wim G. Bouwman" <w.g.bouwman@iri.tudelft.nl> writes:
> I have a related question.
> Does anybody know a trick to make all the lines in the postscript output
> file thicker? This includes the titles, axes and thicks.
If you have Unix, you might try my XFWINDOW program. It's essentially
a normal direct graphics window, but has the special property that it
records all graphics commands. Then you can simply press a button and
the output goes to the printer, or a file, or both. It has the
capability to automatically thicken lines when sending PS output.
I haven't updated the web page recently. If you have IDL 5.3 or 5.4,
you will need to recompile, per the instructions.
Craig
http://cow.physics.wisc.edu/~craigm/idl/idl.html (under Printing)
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| Re: thick = 2 and postscript output [message #25271 is a reply to message #25269] |
Thu, 31 May 2001 09:07 |
davidf
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Registered: September 1996
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Christopher W. O'Dell (odell@cmb.physics.wisc.edu) writes:
> I'm trying to make some postscript files of simple graphs; I
> have gotten color and fonts to work, but
> the command
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> plot, x, y, thick = 2
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> fails to make a thick line in the postscript output file.
> Anyone know why, and how to remedy this?
Oh, I think it is working. It is just that a line in a
PostScript file is *very* thin. A two pixel line is *still*
very thin, depending upon the resolution of your PostScript
device. I find I have to bump thicknesses up by a factor
of about 5 or so to see noticeable differences on my printer.
Cheers,
David
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| Edit IDL-made postscript file. Was: thick = 2 and postscript output [message #25364 is a reply to message #25261] |
Tue, 05 June 2001 04:17 |
Kristian Kjaer
Messages: 58
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Hallo Wim,
Long time!
I agree with Martin that one should use (in IDL)
plot,...,xthick=3,ythick=4,thick=5,charthick=6 ; or whatever
But maybe you have an IDL-made ps-file that you don't care to re-create?
It actually works to edit the ps-file:
If none of the
,*thick=...
keywords were used in IDL, simply change from
%%EndPageSetup
10 setlinewidth L0 ...
to, e.g.,
%%EndPageSetup
50 setlinewidth L0 ...
If the IDL command was something like
plot,...,xthick=3,ythick=4,thick=5,charthick=6
then it takes a little more editing.
Disclaimer: I don't know anything about postscript. The above is based
on experimentation.
Perhaps there is a way to apply the same *scalefactor* to all of the
line
widths in a ps-file?
Best regards, Kristian
Kristian Kjær, Risø Natl. Laboratory, Denmark
"Wim G. Bouwman" wrote:
Subject: Re: thick = 2 and postscript output
Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2001 10:15:58 +0200
From: "Wim G. Bouwman" <w.g.bouwman@iri.tudelft.nl>
Organization: Delft University of Technology
Newsgroups: comp.lang.idl-pvwave
> I have a related question.
> Does anybody know a trick to make all the lines in the postscript output
> file thicker? ...
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