| sec : U Re: Problems importing IDL postscript from TV output into Adobe Illustrator [message #30824] |
Tue, 21 May 2002 15:40 |
Andrew Cool
Messages: 219
Registered: January 1996
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Eric Jensen wrote:
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> I'm using IDL 5.3 under Linux to create some postscript files that I'd
> like to include in an Adobe Illustrator document. This works fine with
> line drawings (PLOT, CONTOUR, etc.) but if I create a postscript file
> using TV (or David Fanning's TVIMAGE), I cannot import it into
> Illustrator. When I try to open the postscript file in Illustrator
> or place it into an Illustrator document, one of two things happens:
>
snip..
Hi Eric,
Your problem might be related to IDL v5.3. Here's part of a reply
from RSI Tech Support in response to a PS Prolog bug that we
identified back in 2000. Seems v5.3 had a few quirky bugs in
producing PS output. Certainly the PS output we produced in v5.4 Beta
could be viewed OK in some PS viewers, but not in others.
You might want to try IDL v5.4 or v5.5 if you can source it.
> I've been looking at your PS file problem in IDL 5.4 Beta. Basically, we
> fixed a bug that was in IDL 5.3 (Had to do with showpage being inside a
> page's save/restore pair and problems that caused for page post-processors,
> but that is another story). But the fix was bad and broke other things. It
> unfortunately went out in Beta before we could catch it and you got to
> experience the problem as well, and I apologize for that.
Cheers,
Andrew
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