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Re: Musing on IDL's Future Direction [message #63725 is a reply to message #63650]

Mon, 17 November 2008 21:18

Craig Markwardt
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Registered: November 1996

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On Nov 16, 11:40 am, David Fanning <n...@dfanning.com> wrote:
> I guess my point is this. There are a lot of people,
> myself included, who use and are extremely happy with
> what I have come to think of as IDL's "old" features.
> Line plots, image display, good ol' direct graphics,
> sent to a PostScript file for nice output. We could
> be made happy and a LOT less cynical, I think, if
> along with the bright new gewgaws someone threw in a
> lagniappe of a PostScript device that worked the way
> it was suppose to work in this day and age.

Yep, a better postscript driver would be nice. Actually I was
developing a new device driver to replace X/Postscript, but... it was
hard!

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		Musing on IDL's Future Direction By: David Fanning on Sun, 16 November 2008 08:40
		Re: Musing on IDL's Future Direction By: David Fanning on Tue, 18 November 2008 08:08
		Re: Musing on IDL's Future Direction By: Craig Markwardt on Tue, 18 November 2008 07:52
		Re: Musing on IDL's Future Direction By: Mirko.Vukovic[1] on Tue, 18 November 2008 05:21
		Re: Musing on IDL's Future Direction By: Craig Markwardt on Mon, 17 November 2008 21:18
		Re: Musing on IDL's Future Direction By: Kenneth P. Bowman on Mon, 17 November 2008 07:22
		Re: Musing on IDL's Future Direction By: pgrigis on Mon, 17 November 2008 07:57

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