| Re: Postscript font index mystery (IDL) [message #6368] |
Thu, 20 June 1996 00:00 |
rivers
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Registered: March 1991
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In article <4qbkvg$il@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>, munter@glhpx3.cen.uiuc.edu (Alan Edwin Munter) writes:
> I am trying to put axis labels on the graphs that are sent to the
> screen and postscript plot devices. The screen plots look great.
> Everything works fine. I performed a help,/device command to verify
> the indices of the different postscript fonts, and make a different
> axis label when hard copies of the plots are desired. For some
> reason, the text in the postscript files are coming out in the font
> index for the screen device.
To use the Postscript fonts you need to set !P.FONT=0 (hardware fonts) rather than the default
!P.FONT=-1 (Hershey software fonts).
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| Re: Postscript font index mystery (IDL) [message #6371 is a reply to message #6368] |
Thu, 20 June 1996 00:00  |
rarback
Messages: 15
Registered: October 1992
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In article <4qbkvg$il@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>, munter@glhpx3.cen.uiuc.edu
(Alan Edwin Munter) writes...
> I am trying to put axis labels on the graphs that are sent to the
> screen and postscript plot devices. The screen plots look great.
..
> the text in the postscript files are coming out in the font
> index for the screen device.
You need to set the system variable !p.font to zero for plot routines to use
the hardware fonts.
--Harvey
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