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Re: Poor letters! [message #28102 is a reply to message #28095]

Tue, 20 November 2001 05:25

Ben Tupper
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Registered: August 1999

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Hi,

You don't say what you do with these images... but you might
consider using the Metafile device if you are on Windows. I
have have pretty good luck producing 'pretty' scaleable output
that I can load into wordprocessors.

You access the 'metafile' device via the 'Set_Plot' procedure.

Ben

Kenlo Nishida wrote:

> Hi, IDL News Group:
>
> 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.
>
> --
> Kenlo Nishida
> kenlo@ntsg.umt.edu
> Numerical Terradynamic Simulation Group (NTSG)
> School of Forestry, University of Montana
> Missoula, MT59812
> Tel: (406) 243-4693
> Fax: (406) 243-4510

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		Re: Poor letters! By: Craig Markwardt on Tue, 20 November 2001 08:51
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