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Problem with CGM device and PageMaker [message #8739]

Sun, 13 April 1997 00:00

rivers
Messages: 228
Registered: March 1991

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I am trying to use the IDL Computer Graphics Metafile (CGM) driver on a Unix
host to produce files to be imported into Adobe PageMaker 6.0 running under
Windows NT 4.0. I find that PageMaker won't recognize the files as CGM at all
if I use CGM "text" output in IDL, so I am using "binary". With binary files
it almost works, but I have the following problem:

- When placing the CGM file into PageMaker the actual plot occupies only the
lower left ~25% of the bounding box in both the horizontal and vertical
directions. This is a real problem, because PageMaker only lets me increase
the size of the bounding box up to the size of the page, so the plot is still
too small.

IDL generates CGM coordinates which go from 0 to 32K. It seems like PageMaker
expects CGM coordinates which go from 0 to 128K? Does anyone know a way to
change either IDL or PageMaker behavior to get this to work? This is my first
experience with CGM.

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