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Re: Another EPS question [message #40790 is a reply to message #40769]

Wed, 25 August 2004 17:11

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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Michael Wallace writes:

> I'm using the IDLgrClipboard to create an EPS file. Is there a way to
> position my image in the EPS file? When I print the EPS files I'm
> creating, my plot is always drawn portrait style at the bottom of the
> page. What I'd really like is to have it use landscape and be
> positioned in the middle of the paper. How can I do this?

Prayer I think might be your best bet. :-)

How much PostScript do you know? In addition to the things
ps2eps does, you will have to find and change the BoundingBox
and PageBoundingBox tags, as well as the PageOrientation tag.
For a minimum. Probably a lot of other stuff as well.

You might be able to fake most of it by creating a PostScript
and encapsulated Postscript file and looking at the output
in a text editor. Judicious cut and paste might work...after
a while.

Maybe it would be easier to mock up a Microsoft Word
document and insert the EPS file using Active X components.
Just a suggestion. :-)

Cheers,

David

P.S. This whole PostScript situation is getting to be
a real bother. You write code for your display (always
24-bit these days, Hello!) and you have to write it
differently for 8-bit displays. I spent the afternoon
re-working my color tools to handle this situation
more transparently (testing now), but it is *still*
a bother. Sigh...
--
David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/

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		Re: Another EPS question By: R.G. Stockwell on Fri, 27 August 2004 08:05
		Re: Another EPS question By: Chris Lee on Thu, 26 August 2004 13:08
		Re: Another EPS question By: David Fanning on Thu, 26 August 2004 13:02
		Re: Another EPS question By: R.G. Stockwell on Thu, 26 August 2004 12:25
		Re: Another EPS question By: R.Bauer on Thu, 26 August 2004 11:17
		Re: Another EPS question By: David Fanning on Thu, 26 August 2004 11:13
		Re: Another EPS question By: Michael Wallace on Thu, 26 August 2004 10:58
		Re: Another EPS question By: David Fanning on Wed, 25 August 2004 17:11
		Re: Another EPS question By: Michael Wallace on Wed, 25 August 2004 16:43

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