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Re: simple, yet eluding...different color lines in a plot [message #13002 is a reply to message #12836] Sun, 27 September 1998 00:00 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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Phillip & Suzanne David (pdavid@earthling.net) writes:

> It appears to me that you are running in 16 or 24 bit color. When in this
> mode, colors come up as shades of red rather than the proper shades unless
> you've properly set the decomposed option. I don't recall the exact setting,
> but that might help.

Yes. As it happens Todd was running a new version of IDL
(IDL 5.1) in a 24-bit Windows environment. A simple:

Device, Decomposed=0

sorted him out.

I've added yet more articles on my web page to alert users
to this potential problem. :-)

Cheers,

David

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