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Re: postscript [message #2761 is a reply to message #2374]

Tue, 20 September 1994 11:11

dan
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Registered: March 1993

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In article <fskmjm.1@puknet.puk.ac.za>, fskmjm@puknet.puk.ac.za (Mike Mathews) writes:
|> In article <1994Sep19.175952.24490@msuvx1.memphis.edu> pvemulakonda@cc.memphis.edu (PAVAN VEMULAKONDA) writes:
|>
|> > I want to convert the image on screen to a postscript file to get a
|> >printout, how can I do it on IDL.
|>
|> >pavan
|>
|>
|>
|> print = 1 ; or 0 for output to the default device
|>
|> if print then begin
|> olddevice=!d.name
|> set_plot,'ps'
|> device,/land,xsize=10,ysize=6,/inches,file='output.ps'
|> endif
|>
|> ;create your plot
|>
|> if print then begin
|> device,/close
|> set_plot,olddevice
|> endif

No, this is only if you want to regenerate the image that is on your screen. The only way
I know of to dump what is on your screen to a postcript file is to use the IDL routine
ANNOTATE after you have generated your image on the screen. ANNOTATE has a postscript option.
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