| Re: Coyote Library Updated [message #87191 is a reply to message #87184] |
Wed, 15 January 2014 04:55   |
Haje Korth
Messages: 651
Registered: May 1997
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Hi David,
could you check the link for the zip file? I get an error clicking the link.
Thank you,
Haje
On Tuesday, January 14, 2014 5:34:36 PM UTC-5, David Fanning wrote:
> Folks,
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> I updated several programs in the Coyote Library today to make it easier
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> to compare output between Coyote Graphics routines and function graphics
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> routines. Mostly this included changing the default font size very
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> slightly in Coyote Graphics (when in PostScript) to match the function
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> graphics font size. I also changed the algorithm I was using in
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> cgPS2Raster to one that works correctly in all cases. It is simpler now
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> and involves a second ImageMagick command. Doing it this way makes it
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> much easier to create properly sized raster files from the encapsulated
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> PostScript files created by function graphics routines. (Well, it would
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> have, had the function graphics PostScript files not had bugs in them.
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> I've since learned these have been corrected in IDL 8.3.) Just be sure
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> to set the Portrait keyword (all encapsulated PostScript files are in
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> portrait orientation) when you are using cgPS2Raster with PostScript
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> files created with function graphics routines.
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> window.save, 'myfile.ps'
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> cgPS2Raster, 'myfile.ps', /PNG, Width=600, /Portrait
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> You can find updated Coyote Library files here:
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> http://www.idlcoyote.com/zip_files/coyoteprograms.zip
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> GoogleCode, as of today, is no longer allowing downloads of zip files,
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> so you can always find the latest files at the above location. They are
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> also available in the Coyote Store as a free software download:
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> http://www.idlcoyote.com/coyotestore/
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> If you have an SVN client, you can continue to get Coyote Library
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> routines from the GoogleCode repository. I continue to use this as the
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> source of all my library routines.
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> If you want to see an example of Coyote Graphics verses Function
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> Graphics output, download the new Library and then visit the multiple
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> axes plot example in the Coyote Plot Gallery:
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> http://www.idlcoyote.com/gallery/index.html#ADDITIONAL_AXES_ PLOT
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> If anyone wants to contribute function graphics code to the plot
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> gallery, please have at it. I'll do this as I can, but it is not my
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> highest priority.
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> Cheers,
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> David
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> --
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> David Fanning, Ph.D.
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> Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
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> Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com/
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> Sepore ma de ni thue. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")
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