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Re: Windows PostScript Preview Image [message #17923 is a reply to message #17835]

Tue, 16 November 1999 00:00

Laurent Chardon
Messages: 8
Registered: June 1999

Junior Member

On a similar topic, I'd like to offer the following information. I wanted to
be able to include plots generated by IDL to my word documents. Screen dumps
of the display window were out of the question as well as GIFs, TIFFs,
etc... because their resolution is too crude. I couldn't import PostScript
files either because I don't have a Postscript printer. I found that the
best way was to generate postscript files and to import them into Corel Draw
9. Once there every single part of the graph is an individual object, which
is useful if you have extra manipulations to perform. You could delete the
title of an axis, for example, if that's something you needed to do. But the
real usefullness is that you can select an arbitrary area of the PostScript
page and copy it to the clipboard.
The advantage to me is that I can select one plot with its titles from a
multiplot ps file and copy it in the clipboard, go to word and paste it in a
table cell. Then I go get another plot and paste it in another cell, etc...
This method is very flexible because I can change the layout of the plots on
my word document without having to go back to IDL and generate a new
PostScript file.
Best of all the printed output looks very good on my 600dpi printer,
specially when using true type fonts.

Laurent

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		Windows PostScript Preview Image By: davidf on Tue, 16 November 1999 00:00
		Re: Windows PostScript Preview Image By: Mark Hadfield on Thu, 18 November 1999 00:00
		Re: Windows PostScript Preview Image By: wgallery on Wed, 17 November 1999 00:00
		Re: Windows PostScript Preview Image By: davidf on Wed, 17 November 1999 00:00
		Re: Windows PostScript Preview Image By: m218003 on Wed, 17 November 1999 00:00
		Re: Windows PostScript Preview Image By: Mark Hadfield on Wed, 17 November 1999 00:00
		Re: Windows PostScript Preview Image By: Laurent Chardon on Tue, 16 November 1999 00:00
		Re: Windows PostScript Preview Image By: Liam Gumley on Tue, 16 November 1999 00:00

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