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Re: set_plot,'PS' and accurate colors? [message #33478 is a reply to message #33476]

Wed, 08 January 2003 12:08

David Fanning
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dave (knapp@rtt.colorado.edu.NOSPAM) writes:
>
> It's looking like IDL can't plot output graphics (PS, metafile etc) with more than
> 256 colors ever, is that true?

256 colors out of a palette of 16.7 million. Yes,
that is what it means to be an 8-bit device. Computers
used to be like this in the old days. :-)

Cheers,

David

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		Re: set_plot,'PS' and accurate colors? By: dave on Wed, 08 January 2003 13:02
		Re: set_plot,'PS' and accurate colors? By: David Fanning on Wed, 08 January 2003 13:04
		Re: set_plot,'PS' and accurate colors? By: Mark Hadfield on Wed, 08 January 2003 13:59
		Re: set_plot,'PS' and accurate colors? By: thompson on Mon, 13 January 2003 08:27
		Re: set_plot,'PS' and accurate colors? By: Liam E. Gumley on Wed, 08 January 2003 12:48
		Re: set_plot,'PS' and accurate colors? By: David Fanning on Wed, 08 January 2003 13:02
		Re: set_plot,'PS' and accurate colors? By: thompson on Mon, 13 January 2003 08:26
		Re: set_plot,'PS' and accurate colors? By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Wed, 08 January 2003 12:58
		Re: set_plot,'PS' and accurate colors? By: dave on Wed, 08 January 2003 13:08
		Re: set_plot,'PS' and accurate colors? By: Mark Hadfield on Wed, 08 January 2003 12:47
		Re: set_plot,'PS' and accurate colors? By: dave on Wed, 08 January 2003 12:25
		Re: set_plot,'PS' and accurate colors? By: David Fanning on Wed, 08 January 2003 12:08
		Re: set_plot,'PS' and accurate colors? By: dave on Wed, 08 January 2003 11:59
		Re: set_plot,'PS' and accurate colors? By: David Fanning on Tue, 07 January 2003 12:38
		Re: set_plot,'PS' and accurate colors? By: David Fanning on Tue, 07 January 2003 12:18
		Re: set_plot,'PS' and accurate colors? By: dave on Tue, 07 January 2003 12:00
		Re: set_plot,'PS' and accurate colors? By: David Fanning on Tue, 07 January 2003 11:44
		Re: set_plot,'PS' and accurate colors? By: dave on Tue, 07 January 2003 11:31
		Re: set_plot,'PS' and accurate colors? By: David Fanning on Tue, 07 January 2003 11:30
		Re: set_plot,'PS' and accurate colors? By: Alexander Rauscher on Mon, 03 March 2003 10:46
		Re: set_plot,'PS' and accurate colors? By: David Fanning on Wed, 08 January 2003 13:33
		Re: set_plot,'PS' and accurate colors? By: dave on Wed, 08 January 2003 13:10
		Re: set_plot,'PS' and accurate colors? By: Mark Hadfield on Wed, 08 January 2003 13:18

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