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Re: how to ensure overwriting of eps graphics files? [message #53395]

Sun, 15 April 2007 13:13

David Fanning
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swingnut@gmail.com writes:

> Ah, the never-ending challenges of working in IDL. I just discovered a
> little while ago, while continuing to develop code for my
> dissertation, that IDL will write a new postscript file if none
> exists. Great. But in the process of debugging, setting reasonable
> ranges for plotting, adding and removing items from various plots,
> etc, I've stumbled upon an odd behavior whereby IDL is not overwriting
> existing eps files with the updated plots. (I discovered this because
> I changed something that altered which of the plots gets overwritten
> based on the analysis.)

I doubt this very, very much. I have never known IDL
to EVER append to an already existing PostSript file.
Perhaps you can explain the unusual sequence of events
that leads you to believe this is the case. As far as
I know, IDL *always* creates a new PostScript file.

Cheers,

David

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David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
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