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Re: Mac display help [message #16884 is a reply to message #16883]

Wed, 25 August 1999 00:00

davidf
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Registered: September 1996

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Barbara A Cohen (bcohen@lpl.arizona.edu) writes:

> Hi, I have been using idl for about a year on a UNIX system, where I output
> everything to a postscript file, looked at the postscript, and made
> adjustments as necessary to xyouts, etc. I have just gotten idl for
> my Mac and of course can't do things that way. I tried installing
> GhostScript but it makes my computer crash every time. What I'd like
> to do is have a display window that at least positions everything the way
> it will come out when I write to postscript. As it is now, the positions
> and thicknesses are all weird. I'm sorry if this is an old question
> but does anyone know how to deal with the Mac display windows?

Uh, normalized coordinates. All the time. Every time. Every where. :-)

Cheers,

David

P.S. Lot's of good tips about PostScript output in the
Producing Perfect PostScript Output section of my IDL
Tips page:

http://www.dfanning.com/documents/tips.html

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		Mac display help By: bcohen on Thu, 26 August 1999 00:00
		Re: Mac display help By: davidf on Wed, 25 August 1999 00:00
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