| plots for printing [message #25883] |
Thu, 26 July 2001 05:16  |
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Dominik[1]
Messages: 46
Registered: April 2001
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Hello there,
I need some plots for my report. And I made these plots with IDL (very good
programm for visualisation). Than I take screen shots of the pictures and
used it for printing.
The result was a wuite bad quality. Does somebody know, how I could do this
in a better way to get a good resolution for printing (maybe 300 dpi)?
Thanks for your help
Dom
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Dominik Paul
Uniklinik Freiburg
Abt. Nuklearmedizin/PET
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| Re: plots for printing [message #25969 is a reply to message #25883] |
Thu, 26 July 2001 15:11  |
Liam E. Gumley
Messages: 378
Registered: January 2000
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"Dominik Paul" <dpaul@ukl.uni-freiburg.de> wrote in message
news:9jp1ne$14p$1@n.ruf.uni-freiburg.de...
> I need some plots for my report. And I made these plots with IDL (very
good
> programm for visualisation). Than I take screen shots of the pictures and
> used it for printing.
>
> The result was a wuite bad quality. Does somebody know, how I could do
this
> in a better way to get a good resolution for printing (maybe 300 dpi)?
Several people have recommended PostScript output to solve this problem.
However the PostScript device can be difficult to configure.My usual mode of
operation is to create the plot in a graphics window first, and when I'm
happy with it, I send the plot to the PostScript device with the same aspect
ratio and relative font sizes as the graphics window. The PSON and PSOFF
routines described in my book "Practical IDL Programming" are designed for
this purpose. These programs can be downloaded in the package of sample
programs available at
http://www.gumley.com/PIP/About_Book.html
For example, say you created the following plot in a graphics window:
window, /free
device, decomposed=0
z = dist(64)
z = shift(z, 32, 32)
z = exp(-(z * 0.1)^2)
loadct, 3
shade_surf, z, xstyle=1, ystyle=1, charsize=2, $
pixels=1000, xmargin=[4, 1], ymargin=[1, 0]
To reproduce the plot in a PostScript file:
pson
loadct, 3
shade_surf, z, xstyle=1, ystyle=1, charsize=2, $
pixels=1000, xmargin=[4, 1], ymargin=[1, 0]
psoff
The first call to PSON selects the PostScript device, and opens an output
file named 'idl.ps' by default. It also configures the PostScript device to
have the same aspect ratio as the current graphics window, selects color
output by default, and sets the PostScript font size to the same relative
size as the graphics window. After the plot is created, PSOFF closes the
output file, and reselects the graphics device that was active before PSON
was called.
I used PSON and PSOFF to generate most of the figures in my book, and I
continue to find these routines useful for creating PostScript output. For
more details, see the book.
Cheers,
Liam.
Practical IDL Programming
http://www.gumley.com/
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| Re: plots for printing [message #26039 is a reply to message #25883] |
Wed, 01 August 2001 05:29 |
david[2]
Messages: 100
Registered: June 2001
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Dominik Paul writes:
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> I need some plots for my report. And I made these plots with IDL (very good
> programm for visualisation). Than I take screen shots of the pictures and
> used it for printing.
>
> The result was a wuite bad quality. Does somebody know, how I could do this
> in a better way to get a good resolution for printing (maybe 300 dpi)?
You might try MPI_PLOT. It will allow you to create
simple line plots, with lots of options for visualization.
But it will also allow you to save the file in various
formats, one of which is PostScript. That, of course,
is what you need if you want high-quality output.
http://www.dfanning.com/program/mpi_plot.zip
Cheers,
David
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David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting
Phone: 970-221-0438 E-Mail: davidf@dfanning.com
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/
Toll-Free IDL Book Orders: 1-888-461-0155
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