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Re: ps/eps ouput from object graphic [message #48511 is a reply to message #48510]

Thu, 27 April 2006 09:09

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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David Fanning writes:

> David Fanning writes:
>
>> In 30 minutes of fooling around, the only way I could
>> get an epsilon symbol so far is like this:
>>
>> xobjview,obj_new('IDLgrText',Enable_Formatting=1,'!4' + String(101B), $
>> font=obj_new('idlgrfont', name='hershey'))
>>
>> Something here is not quite right. :-(
>
> Well, progress of sorts. I try this command:
>
> xobjview,obj_new('IDLgrText',font=obj_New('idlgrfont', name='symbol'), $
> enable_formatting=1, "!Z('65'x)")
>
> And I get a nice epsilon symbol along with all sorts of garbage:

I don't have the foggiest idea of how or why, but consider
this:

IDL> str = 'This is the greek symbol epsilon: ' + '!9e!x' + '.'
IDL> xobjview, obj_new('idlgrtext', str, /enable_formatting)

Go figure....

Cheers,

David
--
David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/

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		Re: ps/eps ouput from object graphic By: Karl Schultz on Thu, 27 April 2006 17:23
		Re: ps/eps ouput from object graphic By: David Fanning on Thu, 27 April 2006 10:19
		Re: ps/eps ouput from object graphic By: David Fanning on Thu, 27 April 2006 09:42
		Re: ps/eps ouput from object graphic By: David Fanning on Thu, 27 April 2006 09:27
		Re: ps/eps ouput from object graphic By: David Fanning on Thu, 27 April 2006 09:09
		Re: ps/eps ouput from object graphic By: David Fanning on Thu, 27 April 2006 08:44
		Re: ps/eps ouput from object graphic By: David Fanning on Thu, 27 April 2006 08:17
		Re: ps/eps ouput from object graphic By: btt on Thu, 27 April 2006 07:58
		Re: ps/eps ouput from object graphic By: David Fanning on Thu, 27 April 2006 07:18
		Re: ps/eps ouput from object graphic By: btt on Thu, 27 April 2006 06:58
		Re: ps/eps ouput from object graphic By: snfinder@naver.com on Thu, 27 April 2006 06:01
		Re: ps/eps ouput from object graphic By: btt on Thu, 27 April 2006 05:37

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