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Re: PostScript Dump [message #3140 is a reply to message #637]

Fri, 11 November 1994 07:09

thompson
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Registered: August 1991

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ganga@physics23 (Ken Ganga) writes:

> Hello,

> I got such swift and helpful advice last time I posted here that I
> thought I'd try again.

> I am working on a program in which I have a single plot that changes a
> lot. If I like the plot at a certain point, I would like to be able to
> make a postscript file of the plot as it stands. That is, I would like
> to be able to get an initial graph, muck around with it a bit, then
> dump whatever is in the plot at the moment to a postscript file. Just
> a dump to a postscript file. Using SET_PLOT, 'PS' won't work because I
> would like to see what I am doing to the plot. I seem to be able to
> dump the graph in sun rasterfile format with WRITE_SRF (and I can even
> convert it with XV or whatever), but I would like to be able to make a
> postscript file completely within IDL.

Simplicity itself. Simply read in the window using TVRD, and then use TV or
TVSCL to write it out to the PostScript file.

Bill Thompson

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