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Re: Arrow command/ velovect plot resolution... a little more info [message #26756]

Sat, 22 September 2001 18:39

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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Colinandsamd (colinandsamd@cs.com) writes:

> Thanks for the ideas. Just to give you a bit more of an idea I am trying to
> create graphics that can be pasted or inserted into a MS Word document. I have
> tried all the different arrow commands e.g. thick, and also different file save
> types.

Why not just do an encapsulated PostScript file?
Even Microsoft Word renders these graphics beautifully. :-)

> I can't seem to increase the plot resolution other than by making the plot are
> beigger than the screen display area but when I do this IDL seems to crash or
> do random things.

I think you are working in an inherently low-resolution
direction. All the IDL figures in my book are Encapsulated
PostScript files.

Cheers,

David
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