| Re: Poor letters! [message #28091] |
Tue, 20 November 2001 08:51 |
Craig Markwardt
Messages: 1869
Registered: November 1996
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"Kenlo Nishida" <kenlo@ntsg.umt.edu> writes:
> Hi, IDL News Group:
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> Whenever I make a graph or image with IDL, I am always
> so disappointed with the poor quality of letters (fonts)
> of title or legend that I rewrite it with such application
> softwares as PaintShop after IDL.
>
> Does anyone know how to produce neat letters with
> IDL? ...
The quality of the letters of the graph depends to some degree on
which font you use. The default "simplex roman" font is truly not
that great to look at, but the "complex roman" font is much better.
Another option is to use truetype or device fonts. Both of these will
work on the screen and can be captured to GIF format.
Good luck,
Craig
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| Re: Poor letters! [message #28095 is a reply to message #28091] |
Tue, 20 November 2001 08:16  |
mole6e23
Messages: 31
Registered: December 1998
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> Whenever I make a graph or image with IDL, I am always
> so disappointed with the poor quality of letters (fonts)
> of title or legend that I rewrite it with such application
> softwares as PaintShop after IDL.
>
> Does anyone know how to produce neat letters with
> IDL? Somebody may recommend to use an outline font
> with PostScript, but I usually want to bypass PostScript
> format and produce GIF image directly with "write_gif"
> command.
Or use ghostscript to convert the post script file (and the nice post
script fonts) to a nice gif file (in order to do gif, you'll have to
find and download an older version of ghostscript that still has those
libraries... personally, I've moved to png.) I do this on a daily
basis and it works just fine... not too long ago, I posted the code
for how I spawn this, at least on UNIX. The command on windows is
probably a bit different, but not too hard to figure out.
Todd
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| Re: Poor letters! [message #28102 is a reply to message #28095] |
Tue, 20 November 2001 05:25 |
Ben Tupper
Messages: 186
Registered: August 1999
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Hi,
You don't say what you do with these images... but you might
consider using the Metafile device if you are on Windows. I
have have pretty good luck producing 'pretty' scaleable output
that I can load into wordprocessors.
You access the 'metafile' device via the 'Set_Plot' procedure.
Ben
Kenlo Nishida wrote:
> Hi, IDL News Group:
>
> Whenever I make a graph or image with IDL, I am always
> so disappointed with the poor quality of letters (fonts)
> of title or legend that I rewrite it with such application
> softwares as PaintShop after IDL.
>
> Does anyone know how to produce neat letters with
> IDL? Somebody may recommend to use an outline font
> with PostScript, but I usually want to bypass PostScript
> format and produce GIF image directly with "write_gif"
> command.
>
> --
> Kenlo Nishida
> kenlo@ntsg.umt.edu
> Numerical Terradynamic Simulation Group (NTSG)
> School of Forestry, University of Montana
> Missoula, MT59812
> Tel: (406) 243-4693
> Fax: (406) 243-4510
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248 Lower Round Pond Road
POB 106
Bristol, ME 04539
Tel: (207) 563-1048
Email: PemaquidRiver@tidewater.net
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| Re: Poor letters! [message #28105 is a reply to message #28102] |
Mon, 19 November 2001 21:00 |
David Fanning
Messages: 11724
Registered: August 2001
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Kenlo Nishida (kenlo@ntsg.umt.edu) writes:
> Does anyone know how to produce neat letters with
> IDL? Somebody may recommend to use an outline font
> with PostScript, but I usually want to bypass PostScript
> format and produce GIF image directly with "write_gif"
> command.
Well, there you go. I'd stick with Paintshop then. :-)
Cheers,
David
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