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Re: set_plot,'PS' and accurate colors? [message #33555 is a reply to message #33470] Wed, 08 January 2003 13:59 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
Mark Hadfield is currently offline  Mark Hadfield
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"David Fanning" <david@dfanning.com> wrote in message
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> Mark Hadfield (m.hadfield@niwa.co.nz) writes:
>
>> Actually, it's not quite true of the PS device, in that you can end
>> up with more than 256 colours in a Postscript file by loading a
>> colour table, plotting, loading a different colour table,
>> plotting. Do this n times and you can have 256*n colours in the
>> file.
>
> I was wondering about this. Have you actually tried it?

Yes. To make sure I just ran a test with n = 40.

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National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA)
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