| Re: EPSF, embedded fonts, powerpoint [message #30628] |
Tue, 14 May 2002 08:57  |
R.Bauer
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Registered: November 1998
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"Steve Smith" wrote:
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> David, and Sean:
> I was the OP for the thread David quoted. Ghostscript will do a pretty good
> job making a PNG from IDL postscript, but I agree with Sean that PICT generally
> looks better, mostly the text is sharper (I used CorelDraw 8 to convert PS -->
> PICT). As for the OP's question, I _think_ if you use device, font=0 in direct
> graphics, you'll be using postscript fonts when you do SET_PLOT, 'PS'. However,
> you can't warp postscript fonts, so things like shade_surf will look different.
> I think PowerPoint would do better with TrueType fonts, though. When I posted
> about this, people told me that newer versions of IDL for WinXX have a WMF
> device (I use IDL 5.2 on Linux, so I've no experience here). It sounds like
> you would want to use this device if you are working on WinXX, then I would
> guess PowerPoint's display should be identical to what is viewed in IDL.
Dear all
did you know pstoimg?
pstoimg -type png -aaliastext -crop a -density 150 file
I am often using this and the aaliastext stands for anti aliasing.
Results are fine.
regards
Reimar
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> On Sun, 12 May 2002 14:06:28 -0600, David Fanning <david@dfanning.com> wrote:
>> Sean Dettrick (dettrick@uci.edu) writes:
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>>> I am inserting my EPS files into powerpoint and find that the fonts are very
>>> clunky. Does anybody know how to embed the postscript font into the EPS
>>> file in such a way that powerpoint represents it properly? Is it possible
>>> to do this in direct graphics?
>>>
>>> It seems to work OK if I convert the EPS to PICT or PNG, but everything is
>>> fuzzy around the edges if I do this.
>>
>> I thought Paul Krummel's article from this thread a
>> couple of weeks ago was particularly good on this
>> subject:
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>> Re: color_quan(...., Cube=6) makes white white, but ...
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>> He makes 300 dpi PNG files in GhostView from IDL PostScript
>> files. It looks great to me.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> David
>> --
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>> Fanning Software Consulting
>> Phone: 970-221-0438, E-mail: david@dfanning.com
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> --
> Steve S.
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Reimar Bauer
Institut fuer Stratosphaerische Chemie (ICG-I)
Forschungszentrum Juelich
email: R.Bauer@fz-juelich.de
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