| Re: Multiple PS-files? [message #31151] |
Sun, 09 June 2002 19:46 |
Mark Hadfield
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"Craig Markwardt" <craigmnet@cow.physics.wisc.edu> wrote in message
news:on7kl7an0r.fsf@cow.physics.wisc.edu...
> "Mark Hadfield" <m.hadfield@niwa.co.nz> writes:
>> How about plotting each page to a separate PS file (with a name
>> that indicates which series it belongs to and its position in that
>> series) then assembling each series afterwards?
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> Or, how about using DEVICE, OUTPUT='%% unique comment' to identify
> each page uniquely in the large, and then post-process to split them
> up.
And (as I should have said earlier) for a tool to do either of these
the first place to look is PSUtils:
http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~ajcd/psutils/index.html
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Mark Hadfield "Ka puwaha et tai nei, Hoea tatou"
m.hadfield@niwa.co.nz
National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA)
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| Re: Multiple PS-files? [message #31152 is a reply to message #31151] |
Sun, 09 June 2002 19:24  |
Craig Markwardt
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"Mark Hadfield" <m.hadfield@niwa.co.nz> writes:
> "Big Bird" <condor@biosys.net> wrote in message
> news:df160b8f.0206071414.77388278@posting.google.com...
>> Imagine you're working on some big, honking GB-sized file with some
>> equally big, honking IDL-process. You want to produce four PS-files
>> in the end, each will contain about a hundred pages worth of stuff.
>> ...
>> I.e. is there something that is morally equivalent to
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>> device,/number-one
>> plot,such-n-such
>> device,/number-two
>> plot,something-else
>> devive,/number-one ; first one again
>> plot,another-such-n-such
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> How about plotting each page to a separate PS file (with a name that
> indicates which series it belongs to and its position in that series)
> then assembling each series afterwards?
Or, how about using DEVICE, OUTPUT='%% unique comment' to identify
each page uniquely in the large, and then post-process to split them
up.
Craig
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| Re: Multiple PS-files? [message #31153 is a reply to message #31152] |
Sun, 09 June 2002 14:42 |
Mark Hadfield
Messages: 783
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"Big Bird" <condor@biosys.net> wrote in message
news:df160b8f.0206071414.77388278@posting.google.com...
> Imagine you're working on some big, honking GB-sized file with some
> equally big, honking IDL-process. You want to produce four PS-files
> in the end, each will contain about a hundred pages worth of stuff.
> ...
> I.e. is there something that is morally equivalent to
>
> device,/number-one
> plot,such-n-such
> device,/number-two
> plot,something-else
> devive,/number-one ; first one again
> plot,another-such-n-such
How about plotting each page to a separate PS file (with a name that
indicates which series it belongs to and its position in that series)
then assembling each series afterwards?
--
Mark Hadfield "Ka puwaha et tai nei, Hoea tatou"
m.hadfield@niwa.co.nz
National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA)
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