| Postscript output mods [message #33422] |
Mon, 06 January 2003 12:14  |
S. Penzes
Messages: 5
Registered: July 2000
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Sorry for what must be an oft asked question. What is the best way to
rotate my landscape Postscript output 90 degrees? Do I modify the
"plot, oplot, etc commands? Is there a keyword to the PS device? Do I
have to do the rotation with a PS program (aside: will ghostview do the
job) before I insert it into my MS Word?
Thanks
Steve
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| Re: Postscript output mods [message #33940 is a reply to message #33422] |
Thu, 06 February 2003 10:29  |
David Fanning
Messages: 11724
Registered: August 2001
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Paul van Delst (paul.vandelst@noaa.gov) writes:
> you have a fireplace? (everyone in CO has one, right?) make paper mache logs from the
> wasted paper (smush 'em down good and hard). The kids'll have a ball and once they've
> dried out they'll burn a long time. Hopefully you use organically whitened recycled paper
> and soy ink to avoid any dioxins/heavy metals poisoning the family/neigbourhood/city
> (ehem...that _can_ be a downside :o\
I should have thought of this when the furnace gave up the ghost
earlier this week. Instead, I sat here in my Russian cap with
the ear flaps, typing IDL programs in my mittens. The good
news was, it wasn't exactly tennis weather, so I didn't have
to worry about my wrist not getting any better. :-(
Cheers,
David
P.S. Let's just say it wouldn't surprise me to hear that
Microsoft was in cahoots somehow with Office Depot.
--
David W. Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Phone: 970-221-0438, E-mail: david@dfanning.com
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/
Toll-Free IDL Book Orders: 1-888-461-0155
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| Re: Postscript output mods [message #33941 is a reply to message #33422] |
Thu, 06 February 2003 10:11 |
Paul Van Delst[1]
Messages: 1157
Registered: April 2002
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David Fanning wrote:
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> Reimar Bauer (R.Bauer@fz-juelich.de) writes:
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>>>> Our experience with ms word users and postscript is that's ms
>>>> word is very bad in handling embedded postcsript files.
>>>> (This depends on the type of images, some of out postscriptfiles
>>>> are 12MB)
>>>
>>>
>>> Drifting off the original topic here, but: Bad in what way?
>
> I find that Microsoft Word also likes to put the printer
> into "bankruptcy mode" in which image files are representedd
> by special characters (e.g., $%@), two to a page, for
> hundreds upon hundreds of pages.
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> By the time you realize what is going on, you
> have to make another trip to the office supply
> store for another case of paper. :-(
you have a fireplace? (everyone in CO has one, right?) make paper mache logs from the
wasted paper (smush 'em down good and hard). The kids'll have a ball and once they've
dried out they'll burn a long time. Hopefully you use organically whitened recycled paper
and soy ink to avoid any dioxins/heavy metals poisoning the family/neigbourhood/city
(ehem...that _can_ be a downside :o\
paulv
p.s. Don't do this if you mistakenly selected the transparency tray....
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Paul van Delst
CIMSS @ NOAA/NCEP/EMC
Ph: (301)763-8000 x7274
Fax:(301)763-8545
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| Re: Postscript output mods [message #33945 is a reply to message #33422] |
Thu, 06 February 2003 09:31 |
David Fanning
Messages: 11724
Registered: August 2001
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Reimar Bauer (R.Bauer@fz-juelich.de) writes:
>>> Our experience with ms word users and postscript is that's ms
>>> word is very bad in handling embedded postcsript files.
>>> (This depends on the type of images, some of out postscriptfiles
>>> are 12MB)
>>
>>
>> Drifting off the original topic here, but: Bad in what way?
I find that Microsoft Word also likes to put the printer
into "bankruptcy mode" in which image files are representedd
by special characters (e.g., $%@), two to a page, for
hundreds upon hundreds of pages.
By the time you realize what is going on, you
have to make another trip to the office supply
store for another case of paper. :-(
Cheers,
David
--
David W. Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Phone: 970-221-0438, E-mail: david@dfanning.com
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/
Toll-Free IDL Book Orders: 1-888-461-0155
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| Re: Postscript output mods [message #33946 is a reply to message #33645] |
Thu, 06 February 2003 09:07 |
R.Bauer
Messages: 1424
Registered: November 1998
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Mark Hadfield wrote:
> "Reimar Bauer" <R.Bauer@fz-juelich.de> wrote in message
> news:avq4gi$9bav$1@zam602.zam.kfa-juelich.de...
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>> Our experience with ms word users and postscript is that's ms
>> word is very bad in handling embedded postcsript files.
>> (This depends on the type of images, some of out postscriptfiles
>> are 12MB)
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>
> Drifting off the original topic here, but: Bad in what way?
Dear Mark
Bad in the way. It doesn't print or takes very long time and breaks just
behind this large postscript implementation.
One more well known problem is that's usually there is no preview
included and so there is only a frame where the images are. I have seen
in the past versions sometimes the frame was printed and not the images.
I should explain a bit more that the 12MB PS files we got from some
special contour routines overlayed over maps. (It's not only object
graphics which can produce very large PS files)
For the publications we have to write by non latex programs like MS word
we normally convert the PS files to images. That is for most secretaries
much easier to handle.
regards
Reimar
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Reimar Bauer
Institut fuer Stratosphaerische Chemie (ICG-I)
Forschungszentrum Juelich
email: R.Bauer@fz-juelich.de
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