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Re: IMDISP and writing to Postscript [message #65884 is a reply to message #65873]

Fri, 27 March 2009 10:07

Christopher Thom
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I've also run into preview conversion/smoothing problems. For a free
option, I've found that the "epstopdf", which comes with latex/Texlive
distributions does an excellent job of converting ps->pdf, maintaining
bounding boxes correctly and maintaining the rasterised nature of idl ps
output.

cheers
chris

ps -- this util is *not* the same as "eps2pdf", with which i've had
trouble maintaining correct bboxes.

Quoth Brian Larsen:

> Right I have learned that Preview.app lesson that hard way on more
> than one occasion. The ps file is fine is the pdf that is no good
> that you are really viewing.
>
> Instead of illustrator I find the easiest solution to use Acrobat
> Distiller, I have it set as the default application for ps/eps files.
> Double-click and it makes pdfs that look great. Of course you have to
> have acrobat pro to have this but if you do its a great solution.
>
> Brian
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------ --------------
> Brian Larsen
> Boston University
> Center for Space Physics
> http://people.bu.edu/balarsen/Home/IDL
>

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		Re: IMDISP and writing to Postscript By: Jeremy Bailin on Sun, 29 March 2009 04:55
		Re: IMDISP and writing to Postscript By: ed.schmahl on Sat, 28 March 2009 14:24
		Re: IMDISP and writing to Postscript By: Christopher Thom on Fri, 27 March 2009 10:07
		Re: IMDISP and writing to Postscript By: Brian Larsen on Fri, 27 March 2009 08:03
		Re: IMDISP and writing to Postscript By: Kenneth P. Bowman on Fri, 27 March 2009 07:40
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		Re: IMDISP and writing to Postscript By: Kenneth P. Bowman on Thu, 26 March 2009 18:44
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