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!p.font=0 [message #2631] Mon, 08 August 1994 13:15 Go to next message
boroson is currently offline  boroson
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Registered: March 1992
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I usually don't like the built-in "vectorized" text in IDL, so when
I make plots in postscript, I use the command !p.font=0 to use intrinsic
Postscript fonts. However, when it writes the numbers on the axes, it
uses 2 * 10^8 instead of 2 x 10^8 (i.e., I'd prefer x as the multiplication
symbol.) Also, how does one use superscripts and special characters
(Angstrom sign) when one uses !p.font=0?

Thanks for your help!

Bram Boroson
boroson@jila02.colorado.edu
Re: !p.font [message #17873 is a reply to message #2631] Fri, 12 November 1999 00:00 Go to previous message
davidf is currently offline  davidf
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Registered: September 1996
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R.Bauer (R.Bauer@fz-juelich.de) writes:

> I am a bit angry using hardware fonts on screen
> If I set !p.font to 1
>
> I got a hardware font, but how did I scale it?

Device, Set_Font='Helvetica*14', /TT_Font
Plot, data, Charsize=2

> Sometimes If I got an error using the postscript device I got a pretty
> font on the screen.

You must be living well and paying your respects
to the programming gods, Reimer. :-)

Cheers,

David
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