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Re: Please help. PostScript Import [message #2734 is a reply to message #2653]

Sat, 27 August 1994 20:28

hadfield
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Registered: October 1993

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In article <33li8l$qlv@paperboy.gsfc.nasa.gov> thompson@orpheus.gsfc.nasa.gov (William Thompson) writes:

>> I'm running IDL 3.5.1 under Windows 3.1 and would like to import PostScript
>> graphs into Word for Windows 6. I've tried device, /encapsulate, but all I
>> get after importing to Word, is the title, creator and date, with a border
>> around it. No plot!

> This is the correct behavior. Although Word for Windows cannot display the
> PostScript graphic on the screen, the document will print okay on a PostScript
> printer. You can change this behavior by using

> IDL> DEVICE, /ENCAPSULATE, /PREVIEW

> It will then create a preview image that Word for Windows should be able to use
> to really show you what it will look like. See the reference manual for
> details.

All correct, except that Word for Windows cannot see IDL-generated preview
images. (At least versions up to 2.0c can't; version 6 might be able to, but I
doubt it.)

I frequently generate EPS graphs from IDL and import them into Word for
Windows. I use GSview/Ghostscript to add Windows Metafile (WMF) preview
bitmaps. The process is a little fiddly so I drive it all with a Visual
Basic program. Works a treat, but a couple of caveats:

1. Preview image colour depth must be limited to 4 bits (8 bits crashes the
Word for Windows import filter!).

2. The size of the preview image that GSview can handle is limited to approx
64 kbytes. This limitation may have been removed with the latest 32-bit
versions of GSview & Ghostscript.

The current versions of GSview and Ghostscript are available from
ftp://ftp.cs.wisc.edu/, directories /pub/ghost/rjl and /pub/ghost/aladdin.

============================================================ ==
Mark Hadfield hadfield@storm.greta.cri.nz
NIWA Marine (Taihoro Nukurangi) NIWA.GRETA:HADFIELD
Wellington, New Zealand

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		Re: Please help. PostScript Import By: murthy on Fri, 26 August 1994 06:42
		Re: Please help. PostScript Import By: klm5 on Tue, 30 August 1994 06:06
		Re: Please help. PostScript Import By: olsen on Mon, 29 August 1994 12:06
		Re: Please help. PostScript Import By: hadfield on Sat, 27 August 1994 20:28
		Re: Please help. PostScript Import By: thompson on Fri, 26 August 1994 13:11
		Re: Please help. PostScript Import By: xmosa on Fri, 26 August 1994 05:23
		Re: Please help. PostScript Import By: jnewman on Fri, 26 August 1994 08:39

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