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Re: Object graphics line thickness [message #36649 is a reply to message #36647]

Thu, 09 October 2003 14:19

Mark Hadfield
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Registered: May 1995

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David Fanning wrote:
> Brad Gom writes:
>
>> This has probably been covered before, but I wonder if someone can
>> tell me why the minimum line thickness in object graphics plots seems
>> to be 2 pixels (at least in Windows). This seems to have changed in
>> version 6; my object graphics plots now look rather clunky.
>
> Clunky!? Now don't be saying that. We are on a mission
> in this newsgroup to get people to use those great
> new iTools, and this kind of thing is not helpful. :-(

You can always tell a pioneer. He's the one with the arrows in his back.
(Or she.)

> Actually, I just started up IDL 5.6 and IDL 6.0 simultaneously,
> and ran my XPLOT program. It seems to *me* the object
> graphics in IDL 5.6 are the clunkier. Certainly
> the lines appear thicker there then in the IDL 6.0
> version. The text is *definitely* clunkier in IDL 5.6.
> I *love* the new object text in IDL 6.0! Can't we please
> have this in direct graphics, too?

They look identical to me on screen. Not particularly clunky, just
lines. Ditto on the printer.

Perhaps there's some other difference between your 5.6 and 6.0
environments. Software vs hardware rendering? Default window size?

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Mark Hadfield "Ka puwaha te tai nei, Hoea tatou"
m.hadfield@niwa.co.nz
National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA)

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		Re: Object graphics line thickness By: David Fanning on Fri, 10 October 2003 12:40
		Re: Object graphics line thickness By: b_gom on Fri, 10 October 2003 11:30
		Re: Object graphics line thickness By: b_gom on Fri, 10 October 2003 11:05
		Re: Object graphics line thickness By: David Fanning on Fri, 10 October 2003 09:59
		Re: Object graphics line thickness By: Pavel Romashkin on Fri, 10 October 2003 09:20
		Re: Object graphics line thickness By: David Fanning on Thu, 09 October 2003 15:07
		Re: Object graphics line thickness By: Mark Hadfield on Thu, 09 October 2003 14:19
		Re: Object graphics line thickness By: David Fanning on Thu, 09 October 2003 13:27

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