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Re: Updates to Markwardt Library [message #78833 is a reply to message #78832]

Wed, 21 December 2011 20:50

Craig Markwardt
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Registered: November 1996

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On Dec 21, 10:56 pm, David Fanning <n...@dfanning.com> wrote:
> Craig Markwardt writes:
>> Dang, it's a tough crowd in here tonight :-)
>
> I guess! :-)
>
> I was curious about your PXPERFECT routine, because
> I've had my own struggles getting PostScript output
> to look like what is on the display. I just ran a
> test.
>
> I compared the output of this command:
>
> cgplot, cgdemodata(1), xtitle='Time (Seconds)',
> ytitle='Signal Strength', $
> position=[0.125, 0.125, 0.95, 0.85], $
> title='Experiment 10A3B', output='test.ps'
>
> With this (I think I did this correctly):
>
> thisDevice = !D.Name
> ps_extra = pxperfect(/landscape, thick_factor=tf)
> set_plot, 'ps'
> device, _extra=ps_extra
> cgplot, cgdemodata(1), xtitle='Time (Seconds)',
> ytitle='Signal Strength', $
> position=[0.125, 0.125, 0.95, 0.85], $
> title='Experiment 10A3B', thick=tf
> device, /close
> set_plot, thisDevice
>
> These commands should be duplicating what I would see
> in a normal 640 by 512 graphics window:
>
> cgDisplay, 640, 512
>
> I see almost no difference in the character size,
> interestingly enough. But I do notice that your
> plot is a dfferent size than mine is.
>
> If I print and measure my plot, it is 20x14cm. Your
> plot is 18.5x13. These ratios are 0.7 and 0.702.
> The ratio of the window is 512/640 = 0.8. Are we
> both wrong? :-)

David, sometime in the late unpleasantness, IDL started to defaulting
to 640x389 for plot window dimensions. I think you are seeing this
ratio.

If I explictly make a window 640x512, then PXPERFECT and your CGPLOT
both make Postscript graphic pages of the right size ratios.

Craig

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		Re: Updates to Markwardt Library By: Craig Markwardt on Wed, 21 December 2011 20:58
		Re: Updates to Markwardt Library By: David Fanning on Wed, 21 December 2011 20:55
		Re: Updates to Markwardt Library By: Craig Markwardt on Wed, 21 December 2011 20:50
		Re: Updates to Markwardt Library By: David Fanning on Wed, 21 December 2011 20:04
		Re: Updates to Markwardt Library By: David Fanning on Wed, 21 December 2011 19:56
		Re: Updates to Markwardt Library By: Craig Markwardt on Wed, 21 December 2011 19:35
		Re: Updates to Markwardt Library By: David Fanning on Wed, 21 December 2011 19:16

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