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Re: Postscript device weirdness [message #58585]

Thu, 07 February 2008 08:08

mchinand
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In article <7ade1338-ec80-4ab4-8c9e-2e43f29d2ab8@c23g2000hsa.googlegroups.com>,
nathan12343 <nathan12343@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all-
>
>
> device,filename='plot.ps',/inches,xoffset=3,yoffset=2,xsize= 5,ysize=5
>
> When I print out the postscript file, the plot sits on the bottom left
> corner of the page, as if I hadn't set the xoffset and yoffset
> keywords at all. However, the following code works fine:
>
> device,filename='plot.ps',/inches,xsize=5,ysize=5,xoffset=2, yoffset=3
>
> What I'm wondering is why on earth the device procedure cares about
> the order of the parameters. I'm not aware of any other IDL
> procedures that behave this way. Is there some reason why it does, or
> is it some kind of bug in IDL 6.3?
>

You have swapped the values for the offsets between each case not just the
order of the keywords.

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