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Re: PostScript Background Color Preference [message #73601 is a reply to message #73584]

Wed, 17 November 2010 08:56

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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Paul van Delst writes:

> I reckon just go with white background everywhere by default. People
should be used to seeing white background graphics
> onscreen nowadays.

Yes, you might want to have a look at my new code.
You might be surprised by what you find there. :-)

> Simple for you to code and simple for neophytes to grok what
> will happen when they print.

Well, that's the problem. Writing device independent code
is NOT simple to program! Hence an entire book devoted to
how to do it. In fact, if I weren't writing this book,
I would have had no *idea* how hard this really is. :-)

You probably wouldn't believe how much book chapters have
changed since I made them available, once I took my own
advice and tried to write one of these "easy" programs!

> With NG I just don't worry about it any more
> (i.e. I never use yellow to plot :o)

Yes, I'm trying to bring the same "don't worry about it
anymore" approach to the rest of us, who either can't
upgrade to IDL 8, or who, like me, can't get the damn
thing to run for 10 minutes at a time and have given
up on it. :-)

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: PostScript Background Color Preference By: David Fanning on Thu, 18 November 2010 09:02
		Re: PostScript Background Color Preference By: David Fanning on Wed, 17 November 2010 08:56
		Re: PostScript Background Color Preference By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Wed, 17 November 2010 08:42
		Re: PostScript Background Color Preference By: David Fanning on Wed, 17 November 2010 08:30
		Re: PostScript Background Color Preference By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Wed, 17 November 2010 08:18

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