comp.lang.idl-pvwave archive: archive » Sun Symbol in Postscript

Home » Public Forums » archive » Sun Symbol in Postscript

Show: Today's Messages :: Show Polls :: Message Navigator
E-mail to friend

Re: Sun Symbol [message #41390 is a reply to message #8675]

Mon, 25 October 2004 11:50

mperrin+news
Messages: 81
Registered: May 2001

Member

Ben Panter <me@privacy.net> wrote:
> David Fanning wrote:
>
>> Maybe I have my fonts totally screwed up now, but
>> when I look at the PostScript output with Ghostview,
>> it looks less like a circle with a dot, and more like
>> someone hit you in the arm as you were starting to write
>> your name. :-(
>
> Hmmm. I've always had problems getting the windows gv thing to give me
> nice looking output, but it usually comes out ok on the page when you
> print it. If you zoom in does it still look naff? Failing that, have you
> tried using the linux gv on the output? I think that has antianilasing
> stuff switched on by default.

Postscript output (with default vector fonts) and Postscript output (with
Postscript fonts) are two different things. This is something I've only
recently learned myself - you control which font family is currently in
use with !p.font. The Postscript fonts are far higher quality than the
vector fonts, so I've started switching over to use them myself (See, David,
at least some astronomers *are* trying to keep up with this modern newfangled
stuff! :-) However, in some cases the symbols available in vector fonts don't
match those available in Postscript fonts, the sun symbol being one such case.

Try your plot again with !9n!X after setting !p.font=-1, 0, or 1 and
you'll see the difference.

- Marshall

Report message to a moderator

[Message index]

		Sun Symbol in Postscript By: Wayne Landsman on Wed, 09 April 1997 00:00
		Re: Sun Symbol in Postscript By: Wayne Landsman on Fri, 11 April 1997 00:00
		Re: Sun Symbol By: David Fanning on Tue, 26 October 2004 07:55
		Re: Sun Symbol By: Joel Vernet on Tue, 26 October 2004 07:25
		Re: Sun Symbol By: David Fanning on Mon, 25 October 2004 22:08
		Re: Sun Symbol By: JD Smith on Mon, 25 October 2004 15:15
		Re: Sun Symbol By: David Fanning on Mon, 25 October 2004 14:07
		Re: Sun Symbol By: Wayne Landsman on Mon, 25 October 2004 13:31
		Re: Sun Symbol By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Mon, 25 October 2004 12:50
		Re: Sun Symbol By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Mon, 25 October 2004 12:46
		Re: Sun Symbol By: Craig Markwardt on Mon, 25 October 2004 12:29
		Re: Sun Symbol By: mperrin+news on Mon, 25 October 2004 12:30
		Re: Sun Symbol By: JD Smith on Mon, 25 October 2004 11:52
		Re: Sun Symbol By: David Fanning on Mon, 25 October 2004 11:55
		Re: Sun Symbol By: David Fanning on Mon, 25 October 2004 11:54
		Re: Sun Symbol By: mperrin+news on Mon, 25 October 2004 11:50
		Re: Sun Symbol By: mperrin+news on Mon, 25 October 2004 11:36
		Re: Sun Symbol By: David Fanning on Mon, 25 October 2004 11:22
		Re: Sun Symbol By: David Fanning on Mon, 25 October 2004 11:18
		Re: Sun Symbol By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Mon, 25 October 2004 11:02
		Re: Sun Symbol By: Craig Markwardt on Mon, 25 October 2004 10:36
		Re: Sun Symbol By: Ben Panter on Mon, 25 October 2004 09:21
		Re: Sun Symbol By: David Fanning on Mon, 25 October 2004 09:12
		Re: Sun Symbol By: marcuirl on Mon, 25 October 2004 09:09
		Re: Sun Symbol By: Ben Panter on Mon, 25 October 2004 08:51

Previous Topic:	Installing PostScript Fonts in IDL
Next Topic:	2D scatter-density plotting

-=] Back to Top [=-

[ Syndicate this forum (XML) ] [

] [

]

Current Time: Wed Oct 08 11:40:44 PDT 2025

Total time taken to generate the page: 0.00397 seconds