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Re: XYOUTS and Postscript [message #39576] Fri, 28 May 2004 05:42
David Fanning is currently offline  David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001
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Andreas Ernst writes:

> I use XYOUTS to place text in my Plots. But
> unfortunately, after I set the output to Postscript
> with the set_plot, "ps" command, the text is shown
> in the lower left corner of the output.
> If i do the same in the x window, the alignment of
> the text is correct.
> What is the problem?

Device coordinates. :-)

Use NORMAL or DATA coordinates instead for placement
of text.

Cheers,

David

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Re: XYOUTS and Postscript [message #39577 is a reply to message #39576] Fri, 28 May 2004 03:06 Go to previous message
Andreas Ernst is currently offline  Andreas Ernst
Messages: 14
Registered: July 2002
Junior Member
Ah, I solved the problem. I now use the argument
/NORMAL together with XYOUTS. The coordinates are
then between 0 and 1.
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