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Re: beguinner's question [message #23061 is a reply to message #23059]

Tue, 26 December 2000 11:26

davidf
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Registered: September 1996

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David (dgallego@eucmos.sim.ucm.es) writes:

> I'm working with IDL 5.2 (PC) plotting maps of geographical variables
> (pressure, etc.). I would like to know if it is possible to save the
> graphical output to a vectorial file (such as EPS, Illustrator, WMF).
> Currently I can save the work in TIFF or JPG.

You can certainly create encapsulated PostScript output.
There is no Illustrator output, but in IDL 5.4 you can
now create WMF format files. (At least on Windows machines,
I don't know if this is available in UNIX. Anyone?)

I like to use the PSConfig program you can find on
my web page to get the PostScript "page" set up
appropriately. For example, if I want to draw
an encapsulated plot on A4 paper, I would do something
like this:

keywords = PSConfig(/European, /Encapsulated, Cancel=cancelled)
IF NOT cancelled THEN BEGIN
thisDevice = !D.Name
Set_Plot, 'PS'
Device, _Extra=keywords
Plot, mydata
Device, /Close_File
Set_Plot, thisDevice
ENDIF

Cheers,

David
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