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Re: color printing [message #4833 is a reply to message #4831]

Mon, 07 August 1995 00:00

offenbrg
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coelke@awi-bremerhaven.de (Christoph Oelke) writes:

> Hello,
> I'm looking for a way to produce post-script files of a high
> quality with IDL. So far I produced my window (tv,...)
> and saved the contents with tvrd(), displayed it in print
> mode with tv,<window-save> and thus produced a ps-file.
> But the quality of this method is not great.

What I do is this:

setplot,'ps'
device,/color,bits=8 ;...and whatever other DEVICE options you want

tvclt,19
tv,blahblah
oplot,blahbhla ;Basically do whatever I did to get it to appear
;in my TV window in the first place. One hint:
;Do everything in normalized or data coordinates...
;device coordinates are strange for PostScript.

device,/close
$lpr -Pcolorprinter idl.ps

You'll get much better-looking output than you would do otherwise. I also
often use true-color images (i.e. 3-plane RGB images) when I'm combining
images into one, so I'm not limited to one color table.

Joel
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		Re: color printing By: soc on Thu, 10 August 1995 00:00
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