| Re: thumbnails [message #24034 is a reply to message #24006] |
Tue, 06 March 2001 09:50   |
mchinand
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Registered: September 1996
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In article <MPG.150ed0047c674e33989d7f@news.frii.com>,
David Fanning <davidf@dfanning.com> wrote:
> steve (nobody@nowhere.com) writes:
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>> As I suspected, thanks for confirming that. As long as I'm talking to a
>> guru: is there an image format I can use that will display nice in say,
>> powerpoint, and also produce nice postscript output? I write all my
>> routines to display to my X display (in Linux) and then I switch to the
>> PS device and send everything to a .ps file, making some minor adjustments
>> for special cases (like bitmapped images mixed with line-art). This makes
>> very nice postcript output, but now I'm trying to fix what should not
>> need to be fixed: I'm taking a scalable format (postscript) and producing
>> a non-scalable thumbnail (bitmap) for display. I don't want to just dump
>> my X display to a bitmap format like tiff, gif, jpeg. Since I'm using a
>> *nix-like system, is there something else I should be doing? I'm a little
>> afraid of things like Windows Meta File, since Win-xx usually makes postscript
>> a real chore, and actually, I don't see it in my IDL help. Any suggestions?
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> You might try something like CGM output. Some
> software is able to read and display those
> files nicely. I've never used it myself.
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> I tend to use JPEG files for nearly everything.
> Sometimes if I need great looking viewgraphs
> I'll do the "scale everything by 4" trick that
> I have talked about previously in this newsgroup.
> I use the Z-buffer at 4x resolution, use true-type
> fonts, set all thickness, character sizes, etc to
> 4x. Take a snapshot, reduce the image by 4x, and
> make a JPEG file out of that. It produces some
> lovely viewgraphs...sometimes. :-)
>
> I'm not sure you are going to have your cake and
> eat it too with IDL. (Or with your computer, for
> that matter. The only computer I know of that was
> fabulous at showing great looking preview images
> was the Next computer using Display PostScript as
> it's rendering language.)
>
> Cheers,
>
> David
What I have used to do this is convert the eps file with pstoedit to the
.fig format and then edit this file (change linethickness, fontsize, add a
background, etc) with xfig. After doing that you can save (and scale) it
to a variety of graphics formats. I find this very useful for converting
plots that I have saved in eps format and then sometime later need to
convert it to jpeg or some other format suitable for inclusion in
Powerpoint.
--Mike Chinander
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Michael Chinander University of Chicago
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