| Re: How do people print .ps and .pcl files on windows95 [message #7620] |
Mon, 02 December 1996 00:00 |
Peter Mason
Messages: 145
Registered: June 1996
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On 29 Nov 1996 dean@phobos.cira.colostate.edu wrote:
> Use the print manager to setup the default printer. Then select Edit/print
> then a little window will ask for you to double click on the plot you wish
> to print. The plot will come out of the defulat print. No need to save it
> as PCL or PS. You just need to select edit/print from the IDL window.
This captures and prints a plot window. i.e., It is a "bitmap" sort of
operation, and the quality of the print may be restricted by the plot
window's resolution (which is most likely much lower than the printer's).
If you want, you can send a .PS or .PCL file directly to the default
Windows printer (which must be of the same type - ps or pcl - as the file).
Generate the file, then just use DEVICE,PRINT_FILE=filename to print it
(where "filename" is the name you gave your printfile). I use this
under NT; it should work under 95.
This method has a drawback - the DEVICE,PRINT_FILE= command appears to
return before the file has been printed. (Well, I suppose this might
depend on how the printer's spooling has been set up.) So you have to
leave the printfile hanging around - if you delete it before it's been
printed, you could crash IDL.
Peter Mason
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| Re: How do people print .ps and .pcl files on windows95 [message #7628 is a reply to message #7620] |
Fri, 29 November 1996 00:00  |
brian.jackel
Messages: 23
Registered: May 1996
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On a related topic, can anyone else using Win95 manage to print
a file from the editor? That is, when using the built in editor there
is an option File->Print which used to (under WFWG 3.11) give a
nice copy of the current procedure. Currently, however, it gives
an error message (not an informative one), and the File->Printer Setup
doesn't even do anything at all.
This is actually one of my peeves with IDL right now. I'm sure version
5.0 will have all kinds of new bells and whistles, but all I really want is
a version of 4.0 that runs properly under Win95. You know, long filenames,
widgets that behave themselves, easy access to font lists, that kind of thing.
Brian Jackel
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| Re: How do people print .ps and .pcl files on windows95 [message #7632 is a reply to message #7628] |
Fri, 29 November 1996 00:00 |
dean
Messages: 55
Registered: March 1993
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Use the print manager to setup the default printer. Then select Edit/print
then a little window will ask for you to double click on the plot you wish
to print. The plot will come out of the defulat print. No need to save it
as PCL or PS. You just need to select edit/print from the IDL window.
Kelly Dean
CSU/CIRA
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