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Re: Poor letters! [message #28095 is a reply to message #28091]

Tue, 20 November 2001 08:16

mole6e23
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Registered: December 1998

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> Whenever I make a graph or image with IDL, I am always
> so disappointed with the poor quality of letters (fonts)
> of title or legend that I rewrite it with such application
> softwares as PaintShop after IDL.
>
> Does anyone know how to produce neat letters with
> IDL? Somebody may recommend to use an outline font
> with PostScript, but I usually want to bypass PostScript
> format and produce GIF image directly with "write_gif"
> command.

Or use ghostscript to convert the post script file (and the nice post
script fonts) to a nice gif file (in order to do gif, you'll have to
find and download an older version of ghostscript that still has those
libraries... personally, I've moved to png.) I do this on a daily
basis and it works just fine... not too long ago, I posted the code
for how I spawn this, at least on UNIX. The command on windows is
probably a bit different, but not too hard to figure out.

Todd

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		Re: Poor letters! By: Craig Markwardt on Tue, 20 November 2001 08:51
		Re: Poor letters! By: mole6e23 on Tue, 20 November 2001 08:16
		Re: Poor letters! By: Ben Tupper on Tue, 20 November 2001 05:25
		Re: Poor letters! By: David Fanning on Mon, 19 November 2001 21:00

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