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Re: EPS printouts from IDL 4.0.1 [message #5554 is a reply to message #5551]

Thu, 11 January 1996 00:00

thompson
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Registered: August 1991

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Dale Bailey <dale> writes:

> I am a bit new to this so I hope this is not an old question that everyone
> knows already. I am using IDL 4.0.1 on a Sparc 20 (Solaris 5.3), and am trying
> to produce a plot in PostScript for printing. I want to annotate the graph
> (as in the Ref Manual V4 N-Z, Chap 3, pp3-46 ff.). I have found the following:
> * If I do not use the keyword /ENCAPSULATED, I get a PostScript file, which
> I cannot annotate readily (multiple XYOUTS calls overwrite), but it does print;
> * If I use /ENCAPSULATED, I can annotate at will (with XYOUTS), I can view it
> with the display tool (ImageTool) in Soalris on the screen, but it won't print
> to any of our printers (tried a Xerox 4520MP and a HP);

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All the responses I've seen to this message focus on how to print an
encapsulated PostScript file. However, what strikes me is the inference that
XYOUTS behaves differently when used with encapsulated versus regular PS
output. Has anyone else seen that? Does anyone know why?

Bill Thompson

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		Re: EPS printouts from IDL 4.0.1 By: Kenneth S. Kump on Fri, 12 January 1996 00:00
		Re: EPS printouts from IDL 4.0.1 By: thompson on Thu, 11 January 1996 00:00
		Re: EPS printouts from IDL 4.0.1 By: hahn on Thu, 11 January 1996 00:00
		Re: EPS printouts from IDL 4.0.1 By: Dale Bailey on Thu, 11 January 1996 00:00
		Re: EPS printouts from IDL 4.0.1 By: Hermann Mannstein on Thu, 11 January 1996 00:00
		Re: EPS printouts from IDL 4.0.1 By: Hermann Mannstein on Thu, 11 January 1996 00:00

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