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Re: PostScript output from iTools [message #37156 is a reply to message #36980]

Mon, 17 November 2003 06:31

John Mariska
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Registered: November 2003

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Mark Hadfield <m.hadfield@niwa.co.nz> writes:

> David Fanning wrote:
>> Ralph Gailis writes:
>>
>>> Has anyone tried to produce PostScript output from iTools (in particular iPlot)?
> ...
>> As I understand it, object graphics output to PostScript
>> can only be accomplished currently by sending an "image"
>> to PostScript.
>
> Not so. Object graphics output to Postscript can be done in
> raster or vector form, depending on the setting of the VECTOR
> keyword.
>
> However to the best of my knowledge, vector Postscript output is
> not available from iTools. There are probably two reasons for
> this:
>
> * Nobody got around to it
> * Vector renditions of object graphics have various peculiarities
> and limitations, as described in the documentation.
>
> --
> Mark Hadfield "Ka puwaha te tai nei, Hoea tatou"
> m.hadfield@niwa.co.nz
> National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA)

I was once very excited about iTools, especially after RSI spent
a morning giving us a demo here at NRL. In my view, it would at
last provide a way to prepare figures for publication without
going through all the usual agony of placing labels and text at
various places on the figure. Thus it was a major disappointment
to discover that iTools are basically useless for producing
figures for publication. Virtually all publishers require that
figures be submitted as encapsulated postscript. (Color figures
usually need to by CMYK postscript files--another place RSI has
not helped much, though I hear they are working on it.)

John Mariska
Naval Research Laboratory
mariska@nrl.navy.mil

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		PostScript output from iTools By: Ralph.Gailis on Mon, 10 November 2003 16:52
		Re: PostScript output from iTools By: Ralph.Gailis on Thu, 20 November 2003 15:33
		Re: PostScript output from iTools By: David Fanning on Mon, 17 November 2003 08:48
		Re: PostScript output from iTools By: John Mariska on Mon, 17 November 2003 06:31
		Re: PostScript output from iTools By: David Fanning on Sun, 16 November 2003 17:54
		Re: PostScript output from iTools By: Mark Hadfield on Sun, 16 November 2003 17:38
		Re: PostScript output from iTools By: David Fanning on Sun, 16 November 2003 16:48

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