| Re: Configuring XPrinter [message #58844 is a reply to message #58843] |
Fri, 22 February 2008 15:03  |
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On Feb 22, 2:39 pm, "Kenneth P. Bowman" <k-bow...@null.edu> wrote:
> I am going to make one more try at using the XPrinter printing system.
> I do this every few years whenever I miss the feeling of being intensely
> frustrated.
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> Let me start with something very simple.
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> I am running IDL 6.4 on Mac OS X 10.5. To have a clean slate I move my
> .XPrinterDefaults to a new file and start IDL. I create an iTool with
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> iSurface, DIST(50)
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> and then select Print from the File menu. The default output is EPSF to
> the file xprinter.eps. I use all the defaults and click OK.
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> An EPS file (xprinter.eps) appears in my home directory. I open it, and
> unlike the onscreen graphic, it is grayscale. No color.
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> I would be delighted to get EPS output, but I need color. There is no
> obvious way to turn color on in the Print dialog box.
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> Is it possible to create color EPSF output? If so, how?
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> Thanks, Ken Bowman
Ken,
from:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encapsulated_PostScript
"... A fourth format known as a EPSI includes an ASCII-encoded preview
bitmap. This format allows for black-and-white previews only. It is
mainly used on UNIX systems. [...] An EPSI file will contain a line
starting %%BeginPreview: in the DSC prolog."
Does your .eps file have this %%BeginPreview: line?
Is it possible that this is what's happening, and that if you imported
your EPS file into another PS document the colour would magically
reassert itself?
Just a thought,
Chris
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