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Re: Windows PostScript Preview Image [message #17926 is a reply to message #17835]

Tue, 16 November 1999 00:00

Liam Gumley
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Registered: November 1994

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David Fanning wrote:
> There has been some discussion on this newsgroup lately
> of how to produce a decent PostScript preview image, so
> you could import the image into a Word or Powerpoint
> document and see something reasonable. I've written
> an article on this topic that might shed some light on
> the subject, at least for those of you working on Windows
> machines. (Ninety percent of you, if my recent figures from
> Microsoft are any indication. :-)
>
> http://www.dfanning.com/tips/postscript_preview.html

David, thanks for the nice write up.

> The first method is IDL's own, using the Preview keyword.
> The second involves using Ghostview, as suggested on this
> newsgroup by Liam Gumley, and the third method uses Adobe
> Acrobat and was suggested to me by Larry Ashim.
> I'll let you decide which method you prefer. :-)

I've found GSView to be an indispensable tool for checking that my IDL
Postscript output really looks the way I intended it to look, without
having to print a darn thing. And it adds nice preview images as well!
Check out
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/

Cheers,
Liam.

--
Liam E. Gumley
Space Science and Engineering Center, UW-Madison
http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/~gumley

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