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Re: thick-bold lines? [message #54006]

Tue, 15 May 2007 07:30

Paul Van Delst[1]
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cmancone@ufl.edu wrote:
> Ah, good point. My suggestion has the disadvantage of changing the
> global plot variables, so all plots you make will have thicker lines.
> Of course, this can be useful if you always want thicker lines (I
> usually do), but it looks ugly when making plots in idl plot windows,
> instead of .ps files.

Not really:

pro mydataplot, x, y, ps=ps
thick = 1 ; Default thickness for screen plot
if ( keyword_set(ps) ) then thick = 3

plot, x, y, $
THICK = thick, $
XTHICK = thick, $
YTHICK = thick
end

where the "ps" keyword indicates that the PS output device has been setup already.

Typically, when I'm producing plots where I also want PS output, a little program like the
above is in order. Guaranteed I'm going to want to do it more than once.

If it's something you do all the time, you may want to put the attribute switching to/from
screen or PS output in its own procedure, e.g.

pro mydataplot, x, y, ps=ps
set_plotdefaults, myp, ps=ps

plot, x, y, $
THICK = myp.thick, $
XTHICK = myp.xthick, $
YTHICK = myp.ythick
....etc...

end

Or... maybe some judicious use of the _EXTRA keyword?

cheers,

paulv

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		Re: thick-bold lines? By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Tue, 15 May 2007 07:30
		Re: thick-bold lines? By: Vince Hradil on Tue, 15 May 2007 07:21
		Re: thick-bold lines? By: cmancone on Tue, 15 May 2007 06:59
		Re: thick-bold lines? By: David Fanning on Tue, 15 May 2007 06:32
		Re: thick-bold lines? By: cmancone on Tue, 15 May 2007 06:29

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