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Re: SURFACE layout details [message #58174 is a reply to message #58171]

Mon, 21 January 2008 11:33

David Fanning
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Paula writes:

> i have two doubts concerning layout cosmetics in a SURFACE plot:
>
> 1) can i have axis in black but wire-mesh surface lines in, say, grey?
> if i change the COLOR parameter both axis and surface change
> together...

IDL> surface, dist(200), color=fsc_color('black'), /nodata, $
background=fsc_color('white')
IDL> surface, dist(200), color=fsc_color('gray'), xstyle=4, $
ystyle=4, zstyle=4, /noerase

> 2) can i have the tick labels shown as in a normal 2D plot? i mean,
> the characters not "distorted" to the 3D space? 'cause i think the 3D
> projection compromise the legibility of the axis in a PS file.

Say what!? Are you using PostScript fonts? Better show us
how you are doing this. :-)

Cheers,

David
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David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
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		Re: SURFACE layout details By: David Fanning on Tue, 22 January 2008 11:38
		Re: SURFACE layout details By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Tue, 22 January 2008 09:09
		Re: SURFACE layout details By: paulartcoelho on Tue, 22 January 2008 02:04
		Re: SURFACE layout details By: David Fanning on Mon, 21 January 2008 14:35
		Re: SURFACE layout details By: Bob[3] on Mon, 21 January 2008 13:21
		Re: SURFACE layout details By: paulartcoelho on Mon, 21 January 2008 13:19
		Re: SURFACE layout details By: David Fanning on Mon, 21 January 2008 12:47
		Re: SURFACE layout details By: Bob[3] on Mon, 21 January 2008 12:34
		Re: SURFACE layout details By: David Fanning on Mon, 21 January 2008 11:33
		Re: SURFACE layout details By: paulartcoelho on Sun, 27 January 2008 01:55

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