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Re: Why plots shown on screen and postscript are different? [message #65083 is a reply to message #65082]

Wed, 11 February 2009 06:31

Maarten[1]
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On Feb 11, 3:02 pm, David Fanning <n...@dfanning.com> wrote:
> T.H. writes:
>> I've found that most of the time postscript plotting is more trouble
>> than it's worth. If I have a plot on screen that I wish to keep I
>> usually save it as PNG using a command something like.......
>
>> WRITE_PNG, filename, TVRD()
>
> Humm, well, we all have our own standards, I guess. :-)
>
> This notion of how to write a program that looks good
> on the display and in a PostScript file comes up over
> and over. It really is quite simple to do, and the clues
> are all over my web page, although oddly they have never
> been collected in a single article.

I take a different approach: I (almost) never plot on screen. All my
plotting is done to Postscript, and I view the result with a

spawn, "gv " + plotfilename + " &"

The only exception is when I need to look at the contents of an array
during debugging. But you rarely want to publish those ;-)

Maarten

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		Re: Why plots shown on screen and postscript are different? By: liamgumley on Wed, 11 February 2009 06:44
		Re: Why plots shown on screen and postscript are different? By: David Fanning on Wed, 11 February 2009 06:37
		Re: Why plots shown on screen and postscript are different? By: Maarten[1] on Wed, 11 February 2009 06:31
		Re: Why plots shown on screen and postscript are different? By: David Fanning on Wed, 11 February 2009 06:02
		Re: Why plots shown on screen and postscript are different? By: T.H. on Wed, 11 February 2009 03:36
		Re: Why plots shown on screen and postscript are different? By: maurya on Tue, 10 February 2009 23:48
		Re: Why plots shown on screen and postscript are different? By: Maarten[1] on Thu, 12 February 2009 01:13

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