| Re: EPS printouts from IDL 4.0.1 [message #5551] |
Fri, 12 January 1996 00:00 |
Kenneth S. Kump
Messages: 5
Registered: June 1995
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Here is my two cents:
I find the easiest way to position text and create postscript or encapsulated
postscript is to use the built-in annotate procedure. It works on the
current window.
You can include text (rotate, scale, choose fonts), make lines, polygons, etc.
Once you are satisfied with the plot, you do File>ExportBitmap (don't be
fooled by the File>Save box--that's for saving the actual annotations). There
is
a postscript option(as well as Gif and Tif). It prompts with a filename
and you are done! If you want encapsulated PS, choose Options box and click
on Encapsulated...It even allows you to specify landscape/portrait and the
output width. It is a little difficult getting used-to the annotate
environment but it is an "easy" solution for most users. I have successfully
included this output into my LATEX documents.
--
Ken Kump
Biomedical Image Processing Laboratory
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
E-mail: kump@morph.ebme.cwru.edu
Dale Bailey <dale> wrote:
> I am a bit new to this so I hope this is not an old question that everyone
> knows already. I am using IDL 4.0.1 on a Sparc 20 (Solaris 5.3), and am trying
> to produce a plot in PostScript for printing. I want to annotate the graph
> (as in the Ref Manual V4 N-Z, Chap 3, pp3-46 ff.). I have found the following:
> * If I do not use the keyword /ENCAPSULATED, I get a PostScript file, which
> I cannot annotate readily (multiple XYOUTS calls overwrite), but it does print;
> * If I use /ENCAPSULATED, I can annotate at will (with XYOUTS), I can view it
> with the display tool (ImageTool) in Soalris on the screen, but it won't print
> to any of our printers (tried a Xerox 4520MP and a HP);
> * I could not see how to position the plot with /ENCAPSULATED, as you can't
> use XOFFSET and YOFFSET with /ENCAPSULATED, and the reference manual's
> advice to change the size is not really for positioning it seems;
> * Once I use the command DEVICE with /ENCAPSUALTED this appears to stay in
> effect for the rest of the IDL session, even if I remove /ENCAPSULATED from
> the command and re-compile the procedure.
>
> Any suggestions? When I try to print an encapsulated PostScript file produced
> by IDL I do get an inital response from the printer, and then nothing - no
> error msgs, nothing at all. This all seems rather messy,and inconsistent.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Dale Bailey
> MRC Cyclotron Unit
> Hammersmith Hospital,
> London. UK.
>
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| Re: EPS printouts from IDL 4.0.1 [message #5554 is a reply to message #5551] |
Thu, 11 January 1996 00:00  |
thompson
Messages: 584
Registered: August 1991
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Dale Bailey <dale> writes:
> I am a bit new to this so I hope this is not an old question that everyone
> knows already. I am using IDL 4.0.1 on a Sparc 20 (Solaris 5.3), and am trying
> to produce a plot in PostScript for printing. I want to annotate the graph
> (as in the Ref Manual V4 N-Z, Chap 3, pp3-46 ff.). I have found the following:
> * If I do not use the keyword /ENCAPSULATED, I get a PostScript file, which
> I cannot annotate readily (multiple XYOUTS calls overwrite), but it does print;
> * If I use /ENCAPSULATED, I can annotate at will (with XYOUTS), I can view it
> with the display tool (ImageTool) in Soalris on the screen, but it won't print
> to any of our printers (tried a Xerox 4520MP and a HP);
(rest deleted)
All the responses I've seen to this message focus on how to print an
encapsulated PostScript file. However, what strikes me is the inference that
XYOUTS behaves differently when used with encapsulated versus regular PS
output. Has anyone else seen that? Does anyone know why?
Bill Thompson
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| Re: EPS printouts from IDL 4.0.1 [message #5557 is a reply to message #5554] |
Thu, 11 January 1996 00:00 |
hahn
Messages: 108
Registered: November 1993
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Hi,
There are two different flavours of PostScript in use, both of them
are needed and are supported by IDL / Wave. The PostScript
driver makes a compatible PostScript so it can be easily changed
from EPS to PS by a normal text editor. But you need to know what
to do.
The basic differences between EPS and PS are:
PS is intended for direct printing. It may contain any number of
pages and it has all information imbedded for the printer as to
position the page, the size of the page etc.
EPS on the contrary is ment for postprocessing by a program
which will add statements to make it printable. *EPS must be
converted to PS to become printable!* A PostScript
printer may wait forever and will not print after having received
and digested a EPS file. (This is due to a missing showpage
command). With an IDL generated EPS file you may simply
append the showpage command and get the page printed.
It may happen as well that a EPS file will produce a blank
page on a printer when you simply add a showpage command
and don't care for the bounding box because the contents of
the page may be completely off the paper. In this case the
bounding box comment will show 4 negative numbers.
One EPS file must not contain more than one page. The EPS file
must contain a Bounding Box statement showing the size of the
page. The IDL driver usually uses positive values in the bounding box.
If IDL output is generated for later annotation it is best to request
an EPS file, do one plot, and close the file. Use a new file for each
plot! Depending on what program is used for annotation it should
convert the EPS to PS which can be directly printed. If that program
does not make an PS file you can simply add a showpage command
and print it. However, the annotation must be on the given page as
neither showpage nor the printers is allowed to make a PS file fit on
the page. This must be done by the postprocessing program.
Norbert Hahn
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| Re: EPS printouts from IDL 4.0.1 [message #5560 is a reply to message #5554] |
Thu, 11 January 1996 00:00 |
Dale Bailey
Messages: 6
Registered: January 1996
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Junior Member |
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Thanks for all your responses. If only the use of PostScript vs Encapsulated
PostScript had been included in a brief statment in the IDL manual I wouldn't
have had this confusion! The only time I have used PostScript previously is
(unknowingly) when I send something to the printer.
Just to complete the discussion, I found that the /DATA keyword used with
an XYOUTS call, after SET_PLOT,'ps', allowed me to position text easily on
the PostScript plot.
Thanks again.
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| Re: EPS printouts from IDL 4.0.1 [message #5561 is a reply to message #5554] |
Thu, 11 January 1996 00:00 |
Hermann Mannstein
Messages: 22
Registered: September 1995
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Junior Member |
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Hello Dale,
.......
I usually use the /ENCAPSULATED keyword, as my graphics are included into
LaTeX/Postscript documents.
If I have to print one image ( or graphic) alone, I use
a small latex file:
\documentstyle[12pt]{article}
\pagestyle{plain}
\input epsf
\begin{document}
\begin{figure}
\epsfxsize=\hsize \epsfbox{idl.eps}
\begin{center}
text - text - text - text
\end{center}
\end{figure}
\end{document}
Regards,
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| Re: EPS printouts from IDL 4.0.1 [message #5562 is a reply to message #5554] |
Thu, 11 January 1996 00:00 |
Hermann Mannstein
Messages: 22
Registered: September 1995
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Junior Member |
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Regards,
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Institut fuer Physik der Atmosphaere or -2558
DLR - Oberpfaffenhofen Fax.: +49 8153 28-1841
Postfach 1116 \ mailto:H.Mannstein@dlr.de
D-82230 Wessling \ 0 http://www.op.dlr.de/~pa64
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