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Re: post script printing [message #4435 is a reply to message #4354]

Tue, 30 May 1995 00:00

Keith Horton
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Registered: May 1995

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knipp@ipi.uni-hannover.de (K Knipp) wrote:
> In article 0013F647@mail.med.upenn.edu, staten@mail.med.upenn.edu writes:
>> Hi. I'm running IDL on a powermac 7100 and I'm trying to create an
>> encapsulated post script file. For some reason, the following code creates a
>> file which is unreadable by Word, Adobe, or Aldus:
>>
>> image = fltarr(256,256)
>> set_plot,'ps'
>> device,/encapsulated,filename = 'test.eps'
>> tv,image
>> device,/close_file
>>
>> The file 'test.eps' cannot be opened as an eps file
>> by Word, Adobe Photoshop, or Aldus. What am I doing wrong?
>>
> ...

>
> Maybe Word, Adobe Photoshop, or Aldus expect the Enc. PostScript Interchange/
> Preview format, so try
>
> device,/ENCAPSULATED,filename = 'test.eps', /PREVIEW
>
>
> Karl
>

I've never gotten the /PREVIEW switch to work in IDL 3.6.x
Does anyone know if it works in 4.0? Right now, I pull in
the IDL-generated EPS file to ghostscript to attach the preview.
Works well, but its a real pain having to go through multiple
steps to create the final graphic.

Aloha, Keith

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		post script printing By: staten on Sat, 27 May 1995 00:00
		Re: post script printing By: Keith Horton on Tue, 30 May 1995 00:00
		Re: post script printing By: staten on Mon, 29 May 1995 00:00
		Re: post script printing By: knipp on Mon, 29 May 1995 00:00
		Re: post script printing By: chase on Wed, 14 June 1995 00:00
		Re: post script printing By: Joel Smith on Tue, 06 June 1995 00:00

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