| Re: Postscript in IDL .. [message #25255 is a reply to message #25254] |
Fri, 01 June 2001 06:30  |
davidf
Messages: 2866
Registered: September 1996
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R.Aspey (raspey@liv.ac.uk) writes:
> 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.
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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..
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> What is the default data file format used for ascii import using IDL?
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> A few things but I dont really want to spend my life
> learning things I may only use once every now and then
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> Any comments would be very much appreciated.
I think you need to pay a competent professional to handle
this for you. But it wouldn't be easy. The documentation
is awful, and they would have to plow through it, too.
Still, I can't imagine tab delimited data taking more than
2-3 minutes. The PostScript output is probably another 30
seconds. You might have to pay as much as $5-$10 to get
this handled. :-(
How about something like this:
data = FltArr(ofWhatEverSize)
OpenR, lun, 'mydatafile.txt', /Get_Lun
ReadF, lun, data
Free_Lun, lun
thisDevice = !P.Name
Set_Plot, "PS"
Device, /Encapsulated
Plot, data
Device, /Close
Set_Plot, thisDevice
It can be fancier than that. But that's about it.
Cheers,
David
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Phone: 970-221-0438 E-Mail: davidf@dfanning.com
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