| Re: Set path of terminal tools, e.g. ImageMagick, in Workbench [message #72834 is a reply to message #72833] |
Sun, 10 October 2010 19:15   |
David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001
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wlandsman writes:
> Hmmm, I can't grok these paragraphs. The versions of PS_START and
> PS_END on your website are for direct graphics and use direct graphics
> fonts. PS_END does not have an option to create a PDF file. Are
> you saying that you have versions of PS_START and PS_END for use with
> the new (V8.0) graphics?
No, no. I'm not interested in new graphics. (Well,
maybe I will be when they actually work.) I am
talking *strictly* direct graphics here.
I have absolutely given up my quest for decent fonts
in IDL *old* direct graphics because I don't need them
any more!
All of the graphics routines I write work on the display
and in the PostScript device in identical ways. (Teaching
people how to do this has been my religious practice for
nearly 20 years now.)
Thus, to get a graphical output in *any* format I desire,
my code looks like this. I show you PDF output, but I
often use PNG, JPEG, or TIFF, depending on what I'm
doing and where I want to view the output. Just set
the appropriate keyword. ImageMagick does the conversion
from PostScript to any of these other formats.
IDL> PS_Start
IDL> My_Graphic_Program
IDL> PS_End, /PDF
It honestly is that dead simple once you have ImageMagick
installed. I'm making PDF files that I import into
Framemaker. All my book graphics are of this type.
Every graphic I produce has beautiful PostScript or
True-Type fonts.
It's wonderful! :-)
Cheers,
David
--
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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