| Re: Object Graphics fonts [message #39676 is a reply to message #39240] |
Mon, 07 June 2004 19:59   |
Michael Wallace
Messages: 409
Registered: December 2003
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>> Second, while fonts running horizontally look fine (mostly), fonts
>> running vertically look like crap. Is there any way to make a vertical
>> font, say for a Y axis annotation, look like the X axis equivalent but
>> rotated? Even the horizontal fonts don't look that great if the font
>> size is too small. Is there any way to remedy this?
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> Are you not using IDL 6.0? Fonts there look very nice.
> I can see why you are complaining if you are using a
> previous version of IDL. You can certainly rotate
> Y axis fonts if that's what you want to do. All kinds of
> text manipulation keywords are available. One usually
> uses the "random change" method until you understand which
> keywords to use and how.
I have found part of my problem and have devised a solution. The object
graphics fonts in IDL 6.0 do look good, however they won't necessarily
look good automatically. At least not for me and my particular setup.
I wouldn't rule out the possibility that my install or configuration
might be to blame. In any case, I have seen some strange behavior that
has left me scratching my head.
Maybe someone out there can explain this. It seemed that the appearance
of a Y axis annotation would change depending on the size of the strings
in the text labels. For example, when one of my plots had a yrange of 0
- 50, the Y axis text looked really good. However, if I made a plot
where the data range was past 100, the position of the Y axis would get
pushed over as expected. However, the rendering of the text would
degrade tremendously. The thing that I couldn't understand was why the
text would change in appearance just because it was rendered in a
difference location.
Whatever the case, I am now adding the axis annotations directly to the
plot instead of to the axis. The fonts look great and they don't change
on me. Of course, I had to go through several minutes of pain trying to
get BASELINE and UPDIR figured out. Eventually, the "random change"
approach yielded some good results. ;-)
-Mike
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