| Sizing Postscript output [message #403] |
Thu, 27 August 1992 05:51  |
kaplan
Messages: 1
Registered: August 1992
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I need a reliable way to make WYSIWYG X-window plots of what will eventually
be postscript driven paper output. The basic problem seems to be controlling
the relationship between font size and plot size.
Currently, in order to make postscript output of PV-WAVE graphs, I have been
opening a postscript device as follows:
set_plot,'ps'
device,filename='graph.ps',xsize=6.0,ysize=6.0,/inches,yoffs et=2,xoffset=+1
and then I resume plotting to the screen something like this:
device,/close
set_plot,'X'
window,0,xsize=500,ysize=500
For different plots, I play with the obvious parameters in the device line.
Does anyone know a formula relating X-window pixel sizes to postscript sizes.
Something which requires me to measure my X-window pixels before beginning
would be just fine.
Many thanks,
Peter (kaplan@sol1.lrsm.upenn.edu)
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| Re: Sizing Postscript output [message #547 is a reply to message #403] |
Fri, 28 August 1992 05:09  |
zawodny
Messages: 121
Registered: August 1992
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I think that we have all run into this problem. I have found that setting
the aspect ratios (ratio of height to width) of the postscript region and the
window the same helps alot. There is still a small problem of the fonts not
being the same size between X-windows and Postscript. This is just a hint at
getting nearer to a WYSIWYG result. Hope that you have better luck than I did,
I settled for a WYSICTWYWG (What You See Is Close To What You Will Get).
Good Luck
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Joseph M. Zawodny (KO4LW) NASA Langley Research Center
zawodny@arbd0.larc.nasa.gov MS-475, Hampton VA, 23681
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