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Re: How can I plot in color? [message #33435]

Sun, 05 January 2003 13:41

David Fanning
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Holger Boehm (boehmholger@hotmail.com) writes:
>
> I�m using IDL5.4 under a Windows98 environment. I would like to use
> colors for plotting different curves. The command "LOADCT, ..."
> doesn't seem to work.
> All plots still appear in B/W.
>
> If you know how to do the trick, please let me know.

Here is the trick:

IDL> Device, Decomposed=0

But, if you don't want to have to worry about this,
choose your colors in a device-independent way with
FSC_Color.

Plot, findgen(11), Color=fsc_color('yellow', $
Background=fsc_color('charcoal')

You can find more about this here:

http://www.dfanning.com/documents/programs.html#fsc_color

Cheers,

David
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