| Re: Importing IDL plots to Powerpoint on Mac [message #42655] |
Sat, 19 February 2005 04:16  |
R.Bauer
Messages: 1424
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wcramer wrote:
> What's the best way to transfer IDL plots to Powerpoint so that they
> look nice? All of the ways that I've tried so far don't look very
> presentable.
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> Thanks
We are using
pstoimg -type png -aaliastext -flip r90 -density 150 file1.ps file2.ps ...
-crop is another useful parameter
man pstoimg
NAME
pstoimg - Convert a PostScript file to a bitmap image
using Ghostscript and the Netpbm utilities
DESCRIPTION
pstoimg iterates over the given input files and runs them
through Ghostscipt. The resulting pnm (portable anymap
files) are processed with different Netpbm tools (crop-
ping, color mapping, aligning, ...) and finally converted
into (currently) either GIF or PNG format. The bitmaps can
now be included e.g. in WWW pages.
The PostScript file is converted as is. If a valid bound-
ing box is found (EPS format), then only this area is con-
verted. The image is not cropped by default.
....
cheers
Reimar
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| Re: Importing IDL plots to Powerpoint on Mac [message #42662 is a reply to message #42655] |
Fri, 18 February 2005 15:29  |
kashyap
Messages: 26
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In article <1108736592.609120.299650@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
wcramer <wcramer@fit.edu> wrote:
> What's the best way to transfer IDL plots to Powerpoint so that they
> look nice? All of the ways that I've tried so far don't look very
> presentable.
>
> Thanks
One way that seems to work reasonably well is to plot on a
large X window, plot with thick lines and large characters,
grab with tvrd and write to jpeg, and then shrink to fit in
powerpoint. e.g.,
window,xsize=640*2,ysize=480*2
!p.thick=2 & !p.charsize=1.5
plot,...,thick=!p.thick*2,charsize=!p.charsize*2
write_jpeg,jpegfilename,tvrd(/true),/true
If you use the Z device, you can make the window even larger
and the lines thicker.
Vinay
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| Re: Importing IDL plots to Powerpoint on Mac [message #42678 is a reply to message #42675] |
Fri, 18 February 2005 06:55 |
K. Bowman
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In article <1108736592.609120.299650@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
"wcramer" <wcramer@fit.edu> wrote:
> What's the best way to transfer IDL plots to Powerpoint so that they
> look nice? All of the ways that I've tried so far don't look very
> presentable.
I don't have a solution for Powerpoint. I have always attributed
graphics issues to Powerpoint doing dumb things with PS and PDF files.
(Intentionally or not, who can say?)
Keynote imports PDF files very easily. Just drag them onto the slide
and re-size as needed. Keynote does smooth bitmaps embedded in PDF
files (see thread from a week or two ago). This is usually
undetectable, unless the bitmaps are very low resolution. You can
export your Keynote presentation to PDF (or even Powerpoint).
Another option is TeX. If you know TeX, you can make your presentation
directly to PDF and present it with Adobe Reader. The learning curve
for Tex is steep at first, but once you figure out how to use it, it's
great. I no longer fight with MS Word. Even better, it's free. I
recommend TeXShop
http://www.uoregon.edu/~koch/texshop/texshop.html,
which is a slick TeX front-end for OS X, but there are others.
A nifty little program for adding math to presentations is the Latex
Equation Editor. Enter the Tex commands in the window, hit the button
to typeset the equation, drag it into the Keynote window.
http://evolve.lse.ac.uk/software/EquationEditor/
Ken Bowman
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| Re: Importing IDL plots to Powerpoint on Mac [message #42738 is a reply to message #42655] |
Mon, 21 February 2005 06:27 |
wcramer
Messages: 9
Registered: February 2005
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Thanks for all of your suggestions. I've been itching to try them, but
can't seem to be able to install the necessary Ghostscript utility. I'm
on a Mac OS X machine with no C compiler to compile the source. Is
there a way to get the binaries that I need?
Thanks
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