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Re: Problem: !D.Y_SIZE in PS portrait [message #5186 is a reply to message #5182]

Thu, 12 October 1995 00:00

rivers
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Registered: March 1991

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In article <45gq3d$g26@ikarus.rz.tu-clausthal.de>, heide@immr.tu-clausthal.de (Gerhard Heide) writes:
> Hi,
>
> I want to use the system varibale !P.MULTI to plot multiple contour plot on
> a page.
>
> Using set_plot='PS' in landscape mode I havn't problems, but in the portait
> mode only the lower part of page is used by IDL.
>
> The !D.X_SIZE is corret (17780) but !D.Y_SIZE is to small (12700)!
> This is half a page!
>
> Why? Who can I solve this problem?
>
The default setting of the PostScript device is to only use half the page.
You need to set the size and offset.

IDL> SET_PLOT, 'PS'
IDL> device, xsize=7, ysize=9, yoffset=1, /inch

(You'll want to look at the documentation on the PS device, the yoffset can
be confusing and I may have got it wrong).

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