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Re: problem using p.multi in IDL 5.3/IRIX [message #48116 is a reply to message #48100] Tue, 28 March 2006 07:50 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
David Fanning is currently offline  David Fanning
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William C. Keel writes:

> OK, I throw myself on the good offices of the group. Running IDL 5.3
> under SGI IRIX 6.15, I can't manage to get two plots up-and-down
> on a portrait PostScript page. No setting of !p.multi that I've
> tried does it. I can get two plots sharing the top half of the page,
> each very wide and short, or the ostensible lower plot landing on
> top of the upper one (overplotted, as far as I can tell) with a message:
> DEVICE: PostScript preview incompatible with multiple pages
>
> I would have thought that setting !p.multi=[2,1,2] or [0,1,2] would get me
> there, but that results in two plots squeezed vertically sharing the
> top half of the page. Feel free to point out what blindingly obvious
> thing I'm repeatedly missing - we have two teenagers at home, so
> I'm under no illusions of mental adequacy.

My guess is that you have either a POSITION keyword set
on your plot commands, or you have !P.POSITION set. That
will really cause !P.MULTI to go crazy. :-)

Cheers,

David

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David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/
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