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Re: IDL and PDF [message #27185 is a reply to message #27183]

Fri, 12 October 2001 09:10

Todd Clements
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Registered: January 2001

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Steve Worland <worley@maths.ex.ac.uk> wrote:

> Does anyone know any way of producing a .pdf output using IDL, or any
> way of converting .ps to .pdf but keeping the graphics looking nice?

Steve -

My favorite answer is to use ghostcript. If you're on some sort of UNIX
box, here's your command line:

gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -q -r 72 -sOutputFile=outFileName
inputFileName

where the 72 is the resolution (in dpi) you want your graphics rendered
at, inputFileName is the name of the .ps file you've created, and
outFileName is the name of the PDF you want created.

I create this string at run time with the appropriate file names and
resolution:

str = 'gs -sDEVICE='+device+' -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -q -r'+ $
strtrim(fix(res),2)+' -sOutputFile='+ $
strippedFileName+extension+' '+ fileList[i]

and then use spawn to execute it.

Todd

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		Re: IDL and PDF By: Paul van Delst on Fri, 12 October 2001 09:33
		Re: IDL and PDF By: Todd Clements on Fri, 12 October 2001 09:10
		Re: IDL and PDF By: Med Bennett on Fri, 12 October 2001 08:21
		Re: IDL and PDF By: David Fanning on Fri, 12 October 2001 07:50
		Re: IDL and PDF By: Steve Worland on Tue, 16 October 2001 01:43
		Re: IDL and PDF By: src on Fri, 26 October 2001 10:06

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