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Re: IDL CONTOUR Questions [message #40910] Thu, 09 September 2004 02:28
Chris Lee is currently offline  Chris Lee
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Registered: August 2003
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> Howdy,gurus
> I am using CONTOUR command to plot a reciprocal space map.
> 1.How can I
> remove all of the tick names (labels)and make the map fill in the output
> window (no margins)?

data=dist(100)
contour, data, xstyle=5, ystyle=5,position=[0,0,1,1]


> 2.How can I control the exact print size of the output box,say,5 by 4
> inch?

i_xsize=5.
i_ysize=4.

window, xsize=i_xsize*2.54*!d.x_px_cm, ysize=i_ysize*2.54*!d.y_px_cm

;i_[x|y]size is the size in inches, 2.54 converts to cm, !d.[x|y]_px_cm stores
the pixels per centimetre for your monitor.

Chris.

> I'll use WRITE_TIFF command to export the map in the output window and
> imbed it into a PageMaker file so I need to control the size of that
> map.
> Thank you for your help!
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