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Re: tvimage, imcontour and ps dimensions [message #43528 is a reply to message #43519]

Fri, 15 April 2005 14:53

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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burkina writes:

> I have a problem with ps output.
> I have an astronomical image with some contours on it. I use tvimage
> and imcontour.
> So far so good.
> I want to produce several similar (but different!) images with exactly
> the same ps width and height size.
> The ps file is created in the script in this way:
>
> set_plot, 'ps'
> device, filename='test.ps', xsize=20, ysize=20, /color
>
> The problem is that in this way (of course no matter the x and ysize),
> I get the y labels of the imcontour outside of the ps file, the image
> is truncated at the axis.
> It happens the same if I work on the screen, but if I resize it
> manually and then retry an imcontour, after a few trial I get the right
> result.
> If then I use again the ps device, I also get all the image on the file
> but, since I resize the screen manually, the actual size of the image
> inside the ps is everytime different!
>
> What am I doing wrong?

Humm. I'm not sure even when you get it to work
you are doing anything right. :-)

Why don't you show us the code. It might offer
a few more clues. But I suspect maybe you haven't
read the documentation in the program headers.

Cheers,

David

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David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
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		Re: tvimage, imcontour and ps dimensions By: burkina on Mon, 18 April 2005 01:56
		Re: tvimage, imcontour and ps dimensions By: David Fanning on Sun, 17 April 2005 15:36
		Re: tvimage, imcontour and ps dimensions By: burkina on Sun, 17 April 2005 03:14
		Re: tvimage, imcontour and ps dimensions By: David Fanning on Fri, 15 April 2005 14:53

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