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Re: Help: Why is my background color always transparent in ps? [message #66233]

Tue, 28 April 2009 06:34

David Fanning
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claydodo writes:

> When I try to plot something on a ps and then convert it into png,
> e.g. ps_start --> loadct --> plot with color --> ps_end, /png. All
> other colors behave good, but the result picture is ALWAYS HAVING A
> TRANSPARENT BACKGROUND no matter which color I choose for it.
> While when plotting directly on X, the background color works fine.
>
> Do I have to set anything up in my system? I'm currently running IDL
> on Ubuntu 9.04 with all the stuffs like gs, imagemagick installed with
> apt-get by default.

Get the *latest* version of PS_END, and uncomment the "alpha"
command in the code.

http://www.dfanning.com/programs/ps_end.pro

Cheers,

David
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David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/
Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")

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		Re: Help: Why is my background color always transparent in ps? By: David Fanning on Tue, 28 April 2009 06:34
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