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Re: Using Postscript & Colours in IDL [message #58398 is a reply to message #58335]

Mon, 28 January 2008 12:18

liamgumley
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On Jan 28, 10:50 am, chloesharro...@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi Liam
>
> Thanks very much for that - so much more novice-friendly and I already
> had the zip file downloaded and extracted in my IDL path so I could
> use them instantly. I've now used pson and psoff to run one of my
> graphs and it worked fine, so that's great! This is probably a silly
> question, but if I wanted to use the usual method for sending stuff to
> postscript (ie not pson/posff), can I just call "loadcolors" but not
> specify 'device, decomposed=0'? The reason I ask is I have several
> plots within different codes all set up like this and it would be
> easier to delete that one line, than change the code. If not, that's
> fine - I'll stick with this as it works!
>
> One thing I've noticed however, is that with pson I can't change the
> font size (using font_size) and I presume there are some other
> limitations to using pson too.
>
> Thanks ever so much for your help Liam - that really is much simpler
> for someone like me to use! I only have a couple of weeks to grasp
> enough IDL to analyse my data for my research project and sadly don't
> have the time to get to grips with more sophisticated stuff! Your book
> has already been invaluable!

Chloé,

PSON and PSOFF are meant to be drop in replacements for the SET_PLOT
commands used to select and deselect the PostScript device. They
include additional intelligence which makes configuring the PostScript
device much easier than using DEVICE commands. If I was you, I'd
modify your code to use it.

PSON does not impose limitations on the DEVICE commands you can use
after PostScript output has been selected. For example, if you want to
select a Times Roman font

pson
device, set_font='Times Bold', /tt_font ; select a TrueType font
plot, x, y, title='My Test Plot', font=1 ; tell PLOT to use the
TrueType font
psoff

See pages 372 and 373 of my book for more information.

Cheers,
Liam.
Practical IDL Programming
http://www.gumley.com/

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		Using Postscript & Colours in IDL By: chloesharrocks on Mon, 28 January 2008 01:47
		Re: Using Postscript & Colours in IDL By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Mon, 28 January 2008 14:44
		Re: Using Postscript & Colours in IDL By: David Fanning on Mon, 28 January 2008 14:27
		Re: Using Postscript & Colours in IDL By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Mon, 28 January 2008 13:56
		Re: Using Postscript & Colours in IDL By: David Fanning on Mon, 28 January 2008 12:24
		Re: Using Postscript & Colours in IDL By: liamgumley on Mon, 28 January 2008 12:18
		Re: Using Postscript & Colours in IDL By: David Fanning on Mon, 28 January 2008 08:56
		Re: Using Postscript & Colours in IDL By: chloesharrocks on Mon, 28 January 2008 08:50
		Re: Using Postscript & Colours in IDL By: chloesharrocks on Mon, 28 January 2008 07:52
		Re: Using Postscript & Colours in IDL By: David Fanning on Mon, 28 January 2008 07:38
		Re: Using Postscript & Colours in IDL By: chloesharrocks on Mon, 28 January 2008 07:25

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