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Re: Color question [message #24498 is a reply to message #19825]

Tue, 03 April 2001 14:20

rkj
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David Fanning (davidf@dfanning.com) wrote:
: R. Kyle Justice (rkj@dukebar.crml.uab.edu) writes:
:
: > I have a filled contour plot that I would like to
: > display with a color bar. Everything looks fine
: > on the screen but when I try to print, the colors
: > on the bar are no longer correct. They appear
: > washed out(dithered?). The contour colors, however,
: > appear correct. If I look at the file with
: > ghostscript, everything looks fine.
: >
: > I am generating the color bar with TV. It seems
: > that the printer is treating a plot and an image
: > differently.

: Be sure you set BITS_PER_PIXEL to 8 on your
: device command. There are only 4 bits per pixel
: saved for image pixel by default. Enough for
: only 16 colors.

: Cheers,

: David
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I have it set to 8 bits_per_pixels and I still get the same
result.

Kyle

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		Re: Color question By: rkj on Wed, 04 April 2001 11:47
		Re: Color question By: John-David T. Smith on Wed, 04 April 2001 11:21
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