| Re: Postscript in IDL .. [message #25254 is a reply to message #25250] |
Fri, 01 June 2001 06:49   |
R.Bauer
Messages: 1424
Registered: November 1998
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Dear R.A.
"R.Aspey" wrote:
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> I am looking at using IDL to publish some pictures in a
> TeX document. Lets say I have data sets in either
> CSV or tab delimited.
You may use our read_data_file,
http://www.fz-juelich.de/icg/icg1/idl_icglib/idl_source/idl_ html/dbase/download/read_data_file.tar.gz
This routine reads directly a whole datafile into a structure.
You have only to select the filename.
Restriction:
data is a tabular without text
For licensing please have a look at
http://www.fz-juelich.de/icg/icg1/idl_icglib/idl_lib_intro.h tml
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> Can I produce postscript oe EPS files directly and
> if so does anyone have a srcipt they could send me
> with most of the stuff in to save me having to read manuals..
Yes!
To get a very good output as EPS or PS or on Screen we have
developed a plot environment
I have written a publication with lots of examples to explain this in
more detail.
http://www.fz-juelich.de/zb/text/publikation/juel3786.html
PRO example
D=read_data_file('file.txt')
x=(d.data[0,*])[*]
y1=(d.data[1,*])[*]
plotprepare,plot
plot.stamp=0
plot.psflag=2
plot.psfile='example'
plotinit,plot
plotxy,plot,x=x,y=y1
plotend,plot
END
With the plot.psflag you can switch between different output devices
for example
0 is output on screen
1 is PS
2 is EPS
and some others
the plotxy handles the thickness of lines, charsize and symbols,
page layout and positions for all different outputs.
So you get on each device a very good result.
The package includes XY, error bars, probability, 2D, XY_2D, Maps and 3D
at the moment.
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> What is the default data file format used for ascii import using IDL?
there is no default, but it's alway good not mixing text and numbers
in a table.
>
> A few things but I dont really want to spend my life
> learning things I may only use once every now and then
How old are you ?
>
> Any comments would be very much appreciated.
>
> regards
> R.A.
> raspey@liv.ac.uk
cia
Reimar
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Reimar Bauer
Institut fuer Stratosphaerische Chemie (ICG-1)
Forschungszentrum Juelich
email: R.Bauer@fz-juelich.de
http://www.fz-juelich.de/icg/icg1/
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a IDL library at ForschungsZentrum J�lich
http://www.fz-juelich.de/icg/icg1/idl_icglib/idl_lib_intro.h tml
http://www.fz-juelich.de/zb/text/publikation/juel3786.html
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