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Re: Producing graphics without screen display [message #5517 is a reply to message #5514]

Tue, 16 January 1996 00:00

M.W.Gardner
Messages: 7
Registered: November 1995

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Gras Regis <gras@cepax2.observ-gr.fr> wrote:
>
> Is there a way to produce graphics (e.g. in postscript) without displaying
> anything on the screen?
>

Yes! if you use the set_plot command this redirects graphic output to the
specified driver. If you have a program and wish to direct output to a
postscript file then do the following :

> set_plot,'ps'
> device,filename='out.ps'

Subsequent output goes to the postscript file out.ps. See the 'device' manual
page for further options regarding orientation and size. When you have
finished plotting you must then close the file

> device,/close

and reset the output to normal (eg. x windows)

> set_plot,'x'

All the above commands can be incorporated into your program - however I find
that I need a separate graphics routine to reproduce exactly what you see on
the screen in the postscript format - one (of many?) quirks of IDL !

Hope that helps

Matt
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