| Re: IDL and PDF [message #27236 is a reply to message #27183] |
Tue, 16 October 2001 01:43   |
Steve Worland
Messages: 2
Registered: October 2001
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Paul van Delst wrote:
> Todd Clements wrote:
>>
>> Steve Worland <worley@maths.ex.ac.uk> wrote:
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>>> Does anyone know any way of producing a .pdf output using IDL, or any
>>> way of converting .ps to .pdf but keeping the graphics looking nice?
>>
>> Steve -
>>
>> My favorite answer is to use ghostcript. If you're on some sort of UNIX
>> box, here's your command line:
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>> gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -q -r 72 -sOutputFile=outFileName
>> inputFileName
>>
>> where the 72 is the resolution (in dpi) you want your graphics rendered
>> at, inputFileName is the name of the .ps file you've created, and
>> outFileName is the name of the PDF you want created.
>>
>> I create this string at run time with the appropriate file names and
>> resolution:
>>
>> str = 'gs -sDEVICE='+device+' -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -q -r'+ $
>> strtrim(fix(res),2)+' -sOutputFile='+ $
>> strippedFileName+extension+' '+ fileList[i]
>>
>> and then use spawn to execute it.
>
> Note: Some systems may not like the space after the "-r" in the example above.
>
> Or use the Unix "convert" utility (sorry for the length of the following):
>
> % man convert
>
> convert(1) convert(1)
>
> NAME
> convert - converts an input file using one image format to an output file with the
> same or differing image format.
>
> SYNOPSIS
> convert [ options ... ] file [ file... ] file
>
> DESCRIPTION
> convert converts an input file using one image format to an output file with the
> same or differing image format.
>
> convert recognizes the following image formats:
>
> Tag Description
> ------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------
> AVS AVS X image file.
> BIE+ Joint Bi-level Image experts Group file interchange format.
> BMP+ Microsoft Windows bitmap image file.
> BMP24+ Microsoft Windows 24-bit bitmap image file.
> CGM Computer Graphics Metafile.
> CMYK Raw cyan, magenta, yellow, and black bytes.
> DCX+ ZSoft IBM PC multi-page Paintbrush file.
> DIB Microsoft Windows bitmap image file.
> DICOM Medical image file.
> EPDF Encapsulated Portable Document Format.
> EPI Adobe Encapsulated PostScript Interchange format.
> EPS Adobe Encapsulated PostScript file.
> EPS2 Adobe Level II Encapsulated PostScript file.
> EPSF Adobe Encapsulated PostScript file.
> EPSI Adobe Encapsulated PostScript Interchange format.
> EPT Adobe Encapsulated PostScript Interchange format with TIFF preview.
> FAX+ Group 3.
> FIG TransFig image format.
> FITS Flexible Image Transport System.
> FPX FlashPix Format.
> GIF+ CompuServe graphics interchange format; 8-bit color.
> GIF87+ CompuServe graphics interchange format; 8-bit color (version 87a).
> GRAY Raw gray bytes.
> GRANITE
> granite texture.
> HDF+ Hierarchical Data Format.
> HISTOGRAM
> HPGL HP-GL plotter language.
> HTML Hypertext Markup Language with a client-side image map.
> JBIG+ Joint Bi-level Image experts Group file interchange format.
> JPEG Joint Photographic Experts Group JFIF format; compressed 24-bit color.
> ICO Microsoft icon.
> LABEL text image.
> MAP Red, green, and blue colormap bytes followed by the image colormap indexes.
> MIFF+ Magick image file format. MNG Multiple-image Network Graphics.
> MONO Bi-level bitmap in least-significant-byte (LSB) first order.
> MPEG+ Motion Picture Experts Group file interchange format.
> MTV+ MTV Raytracing image format.
> NETSCAPE
> Netscape 216 color cube.
> NULL NULL image.
> PBM+ Portable bitmap format (black and white).
> PCD Photo CD. The maximum resolution written is 512x768 pixels.
> PCL Page Control Language.
> PCX ZSoft IBM PC Paintbrush file.
> PDF+ Portable Document Format.
> PGM+ Portable graymap format (gray scale).
> PICT Apple Macintosh QuickDraw/PICT file.
> PIX Alias/Wavefront RLE image format.
> PLASMA plasma fractal image. Specify the base color as the filename (e.g.
> plasma:gray). Use fractal to initialize to a random value (e.g.
> plasma:fractal).
> PNG Portable Network Graphics.
> PNM+ Portable anymap.
> PPM+ Portable pixmap format (color).
> PS+ Adobe PostScript file.
> PSD Adobe Photoshop bitmap file.
> PS2+ Adobe Level II PostScript file.
> P7 Xv's visual schnauzer format.
> RAD Radiance image format.
> RGB Raw red, green, and blue bytes.
> RGBA Raw red, green, blue and matte bytes.
> RLA Alias/Wavefront image file; read only
> RLE Utah Run length encoded image file; read only.
> SGI+ Irix RGB image file.
> SHTML Hypertext Markup Language with a client-side image map.
> SUN+ SUN Rasterfile.
> TEXT raw text file; read only.
> TGA+ Truevision Targa image file.
> TIFF+ Tagged Image File Format.
> TIFF24+
> 24-bit Tagged Image File Format.
> TILE tile image with a texture.
> TIM PSX TIM file.
> TTF TrueType font file.
> UIL X-Motif UIL table.
> UYVY Interleaved YUV.
> VICAR read only.
> VID Visual Image Directory.
> VIFF+ Khoros Visualization image file.
> WIN select image from or display image to your computer screen.
> X select image from or display image to your X server screen.
> XC constant image of X server color. Specify the desired color as the filename
> (e.g. xc:yellow).
> XBM X11 bitmap file.
> XPM X Windows system pixmap file (color).
> XWD X Windows system window dump file (color).
> YUV+ CCIR 601 4:1:1 file.
>
> I use IDL 5.4.1 and use convert to create GIF output of my pretty PostScript files (which have
> always looked better than IDL produced GIF files if you can handle the larger file sizes).
> Works fine for PS->PDF too (lathough you may have to dick about with fonts
>
> cheers,
>
> paulv
>
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Thankyou all for your help!!!
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