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Re: AstroPlotLib [message #82859 is a reply to message #82858]

Tue, 22 January 2013 12:20

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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Wayne Landsman writes:

> Last I looked, the programs used -- cgplot, cgimage, cgcontour, cghistoplot, cgsymbol -- are in the Coyote library circa 2013 ;-)
>
> I am guessing that you were mainly looking at the setup for postscript and ultimately PDF output. Once someone has a setup that works, I sympathize with not wanting to modernize it. But yes it does propagate the old way of doing things. --Wayne

I guess I'm a LITTLE bit sympathetic about setting up the PostScript
device. God knows, once you get that working you don't want to change
anything, even if your 25-odd commands can be reduced to 2.

But, the thing that causes me a LOT of grief and time is setting Coyote
Graphics color keywords with cgColor, like this:

cgPlot, data, COLOR=cgColor('blue')

DON'T DO THAT! DON'T EVER DO THAT!!

Here is the way go set color keywords in Coyote Graphics commands:

cgPlot, data, COLOR='blue'

Otherwise, nothing but havoc ensues despite my best attempts at
preventing it.

I would pay someone good money to get that fixed on that web site. It
would pay enormous dividends for me. :-)

Cheers,

David

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David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com/
Sepore ma de ni thue. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")

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		Re: AstroPlotLib By: David Fanning on Tue, 22 January 2013 12:48
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		Re: AstroPlotLib By: wlandsman on Tue, 22 January 2013 11:56
		Re: AstroPlotLib By: markjamie on Tue, 22 January 2013 11:38
		Re: AstroPlotLib By: David Fanning on Tue, 22 January 2013 11:13

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