| Re: Object Graphics --> EPS Output how? [message #26813 is a reply to message #26732] |
Wed, 26 September 2001 02:22   |
Martin Downing
Messages: 136
Registered: September 1998
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Hi Mark,
Ok I just gave it a go: RTFM, created EPS output to the clipboard - but what
do you do with it then?! Is there a method to write the clip board to file
directly?
I tried pasting the unformatted text to file and then reading that into
ghostview - but it was not at all impressed with my efforts! :(
Martin
"Mark Hadfield" <m.hadfield@niwa.cri.nz> wrote in message
news:003b01c1460e$1dae4050$d938a8c0@Hadfield...
> From: "Jason P. Meyers" <jpm7934@cis.rit.edu>
>> I am using IDL 5.3.1 on a Windows NT 4.0 platform. Does anyone know
>> of a way to output object graphics to an EPS file in this situation?
>> The help file indicates that the Unix version does this via the system
>> clipboard but under Windows, it uses a device independent bit map. I
>> would much rather have a vector EPS file similar to the ones produced
>> using the DG postscript device.
>
> You are probably being confused by the following paragraph in the
> documentation for the IDLgrClipboard device...
>
> "An IDLgrClipboard object will send Object Graphics output to the
operating
> system native clipboard in bitmap format. The format of bitmaps sent to
the
> clipboard is operating system dependent: output is stored as a PICT image
on
> the Macintosh, as a device-independent bitmap under Windows, and as an
> Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) image under UNIX and VMS."
>
> The fact is that, as of version 5.3, the IDLgrClipboard supports bitmap
*or*
> vector output, to the clipboard *or* a file. The formats supported are EPS
> (all platforms), WMF (Windows) and PICT (Macintosh).
>
> Look at the documentation for IDLgrClipboard::Draw, in particular the
VECTOR
> keyword.
>
> ---
> Mark Hadfield
> m.hadfield@niwa.cri.nz http://katipo.niwa.cri.nz/~hadfield
> National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research
>
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