| How to print from an iTool? In color. [message #60876] |
Tue, 17 June 2008 15:25 |
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Paul Van Delst[1]
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Registered: April 2002
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Hi,
My previous post today to this newsgroup showed me suffering from an M.C.Escher-like
brainfade, and I hope it's happening in this case too.
How on earth does one print to a local printer, in color, from an iTool? In this case,
iSurface?
I keep getting this xprinter thingo that lists a bzillion different printers EXCEPT the
one I have. Printing to a file is the obvious answer (the xprinter.eps) but there's no color.
And the quality of the PS output that I can get in xprinter.eps is deplorable (all
pixel-y). And it appears the plots to file are all bitmaps by default (and even when I
specifically set the eps to be vector, I still get bitmaps in the file). I need the usual
vector output so I can edit the PS file directly, changing the scale, bounding box, etc.
You know, like I can do with direct graphics output.
So, I *must* be doing a number of things *very* wrong.
Does anyone have an online "dummy's guide" for getting this working for itools? The IDL
documentation was...um...well, suffice it to say I ended up visiting DF's website. There I
saw a bunch of stuff involving dialog_printersetup() and whatnot, but nothing particularly
iTool-y related.
Am I having a really bad day, or is the iTool printer output interface ridiculously
complicated?
cheers,
paulv
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