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Re: creating gif without windows??? [message #29059 is a reply to message #28977]

Mon, 28 January 2002 07:33

thompson
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condor@biosys.net (Big Bird) writes:

> Paul Joe <paul.joe@ec.gc.ca> wrote in message news:<3C4E451C.A1D9589F@ec.gc.ca>...
>> I want to create a gif or tiff or jpg image where I use plot (line
>> plotting) and xyout (text) from command line mode and not gui mode. I
>> want to do this from a cron job on a unix system.
>>
>> Anybody know how?

> The trivial version might have idl plot into a postscript file, then
> run the moral equivalent of

> gs -sDEVICE=jpeggray -r200 -sOutputFile=test.jpg idl.ps

> (the available devices can be found by typing "devicenames ==" into
> gs)

Wouldn't it be simpler to use the Z-buffer within IDL? We use that for cron
jobs which produce GIF or JPEG images.

William Thompson

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