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Re: PostScript Dump [message #3114 is a reply to message #637]

Mon, 14 November 1994 15:23

rouse
Messages: 17
Registered: July 1994

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|>
|>Ken Ganga (ganga@physics23) wrote:
|>: Hello,
|>
|>: I got such swift and helpful advice last time I posted here that I
|>: thought I'd try again.
|>
|>: I am working on a program in which I have a single plot that changes a
|>: lot. If I like the plot at a certain point, I would like to be able to
|>: make a postscript file of the plot as it stands. That is, I would like
|>: to be able to get an initial graph, muck around with it a bit, then
|>: dump whatever is in the plot at the moment to a postscript file. Just
|>: a dump to a postscript file. Using SET_PLOT, 'PS' won't work because I
|>: would like to see what I am doing to the plot. I seem to be able to
|>: dump the graph in sun rasterfile format with WRITE_SRF (and I can even
|>: convert it with XV or whatever), but I would like to be able to make a
|>: postscript file completely within IDL.
|>
|>: Thanks for any help,
|>
|>: Ken
|>

You could do it by using JOURNAL. Turn JOURNAL on make your plot, turn
JOURNAL off, edit the journal file leaving only the plot commands you want,
do the SET_PLOT and DEVICE combination, execute the journal file using the
@ syntax, do DEVICE,/CLOSE.

Save the journal file as a permenant record of your plot commands.
E.g.:

journal, 'plotcmds'
plot,.....

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		Postscript dump to a Laserwriter By: scowen on Thu, 17 December 1992 13:03
		Re: PostScript Dump By: Geoff.Sobering on Wed, 16 November 1994 04:37
		Re: PostScript Dump By: rouse on Mon, 14 November 1994 15:23
		Re: PostScript Dump By: soc on Sat, 12 November 1994 06:13
		Re: PostScript Dump By: thompson on Fri, 11 November 1994 07:09

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