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Re: Arrow command/ velovect plot resolution [message #26669 is a reply to message #26658]

Wed, 19 September 2001 17:26

David Fanning
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Colinandsamd (colinandsamd@cs.com) writes:

> Hi, could anyone help me with improving the resolution of a vector plot? I have
> tried velovect etc and the standard commands and am now using arrow direct.
> This looks just about OK on the screen, but screen grabs using WRITE_JPEG with
> quality = 100 or the Windows clipboard look worse.
>
> The plot area is defined with a draw widget and is 1500 x 1000 pixels in size
> so I would expect to get better quality graphics. The text label was improved
> by switching to a vector font, but is still a bit square looking. The other
> plot types are very nice quality.

I'd guess Velovect could be improved by add a Thick keyword
to it. That might be just the thing to improve resolution
of JPEG images. It would probably take about 5 seconds to
do.

Cheers,

David
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