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Wed, 01 November 2006 11:28

Jared Espley
Messages: 17
Registered: February 2006

Junior Member

Hi all,

I have a few questions that I haven't been able to answer with some
digging around on the web and in the IDL help files so maybe someone
can help. The background on my question is that I'm trying to produce
a "publication" quality plot using IDL and I intend to either make a
.tif from a screen capture using tvread.pro
(http://www.dfanning.com/programs/pswindow.pro) or a color .eps using
postscript output. I'm using IDL 6.2 on Windows XP.

1. Has anyone been able to get True Type fonts (i.e. !p.font=1) to look
ok on the screen? When I use them, they look awful -- even worse than
the default vector fonts I was trying to improve upon. I've seen some
"tricks" about blowing them up 4x times in size, but that's not an
option for me since that size of font won't fit on my plot.

2. Has anyone been able to get device fonts (i..e !p.font=0) to work
correctly with vertical axis labels on the screen? When I use them,
the labels are just letters stacked on top of each other right-side up.
In other words instead of having to turn your head to read them, they
look like this:
L
E
B
A
L

3. Assuming I could get the fonts to work correctly, how do I get
special symbols? For example, using vector fonts, I would type,
"title='!4d!B'" to get little delta B -- how can I do this with the
other font styles?

4. How come when I make sure that my plot size is the same on both the
output window on my monitor and in the postscript output (by using
David Fanning's pswindow.pro
http://www.dfanning.com/programs/pswindow.pro) then I still have to
adjust the positions of my plots, colorbars, etc. to make both outputs
look the same?

5. It appears that the color output of the .eps file I make has very
discrete color levels (about 10 or so) compared to the fairly smooth
continuum I see when I output to a window on the screen. Is this a
fundamental limit of postscript or am I doing something wrong?

Thanks for any help and to all of you that have posted helpful IDL code
on the web.

Jared

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		IDL Fonts By: Jared Espley on Wed, 01 November 2006 11:28
		Re: IDL Fonts By: David Fanning on Thu, 02 November 2006 10:34
		Re: IDL Fonts By: Jared Espley on Thu, 02 November 2006 10:16
		Re: IDL Fonts By: Jared Espley on Thu, 02 November 2006 10:16
		Re: IDL Fonts By: K. Bowman on Thu, 02 November 2006 09:58
		Re: IDL Fonts By: David Fanning on Thu, 02 November 2006 09:24
		Re: IDL Fonts By: David Fanning on Thu, 02 November 2006 08:49
		Re: IDL Fonts By: Jared Espley on Thu, 02 November 2006 08:35
		Re: IDL Fonts By: David Fanning on Thu, 02 November 2006 07:33

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