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Re: plots for printing [message #25882 is a reply to message #25881]

Thu, 26 July 2001 06:10

Alex Schuster
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Registered: February 1997

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Dominik Paul wrote:

> I need some plots for my report. And I made these plots with
> IDL (very good programm for visualisation). Than I take screen
> shots of the pictures and used it for printing.
>
> The result was a wuite bad quality. Does somebody know, how I
> could do this in a better way to get a good resolution for
> printing (maybe 300 dpi)?

Instead of
PLOT, x, y
do:
SET_PLOT 'PS'
DEVICE, /encapsulated, filename='myplot.ps'
PLOT, x, y
DEVICE, /close
SET_PLOT, 'X' ; or SET_PLOT, 'WIN' if using Windows

This puts the output not onto the screen, but into the postscript file
myplot.ps. And have a look at www.dfanning.com if you want the correct
colors, layout etc.

Instead of using the PS device, you can also use the PRINTER device to
directly send the output to the printer.

Alex
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		Re: plots for printing By: Martin Schultz on Thu, 26 July 2001 07:15
		Re: plots for printing By: Randall Skelton on Thu, 26 July 2001 06:36
		Re: plots for printing By: Alex Schuster on Thu, 26 July 2001 06:10

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