| Re: More cgplot, ps_start, ps_end problems [message #75250 is a reply to message #75249] |
Sat, 19 February 2011 11:59   |
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On Feb 19, 1:35 pm, David Fanning <n...@idlcoyote.com> wrote:
> David Fanning writes:
>> Well, actually, it appears ImageMagick is struggling a bit
>> with encapsulated PostScript files. I'll have to look into
>> this some more. I've never tried to turn encapsulated
>> PostScript files into raster files, so I don't know what
>> that problem might be.
>
> I am beginning to suspect that the encapsulated PostScript
> files IDL produces might be the culprit here. Here is what
> I have done.
>
> I created a simple encapsulated PostScript file in IDL.
> I tried to read this file in Adobe Illustrator. I couldn't
> open it.
>
> I opened another similar image file in Adobe Illustrator
> and saved that as an encapsulated PostScript file.
> ImageMagick had no difficulty creating a PNG file from
> that encapsulated PostScript file.
>
> I created an encapsulated PostScript file from an iPlot,
> and tried to open this in Adobe Illustrator. It complained
> about a missing font, but it opened the file just fine.
> This file was also able to be converted to a PNG file
> by ImageMagick just fine.
>
> So, the culprit seems to be the traditional PostScript
> device driver.
>
> I seem to recall something about problems with IDL
> encapsulated PostScript output, but I can't put my
> finger on it. Does anyone remember? I am running
> IDL 7.1.1 on Windows
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> Cheers,
>
> David
>
> --
> David Fanning, Ph.D.
> Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
> Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming:http://www.idlcoyote.com/
> Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")
OOOOh... /NOMATCH should definitely help. Oops. Thanks!
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