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Re: Nice Fonts in Direct Graphics [message #65100 is a reply to message #65098]

Tue, 10 February 2009 12:38

Vince Hradil
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On Feb 10, 2:18 pm, David Fanning <n...@dfanning.com> wrote:
> bernat writes:
>> If I use object graphics to have nice looking fonts, the problem is
>> the quantity of the objects I've. The Draw method is so slow for
>> draw more than 15000 graphic objects (the result when I converted
>> each plot writted in direct graphics to object graphics)
>
> Yes, it wouldn't surprise me if it was faster to use
> the PS_START/PS_END with Direct Graphics approach and
> just display the resulting PNG file produced from
> ImageMagick than it would be to draw all those objects!
>
> Cheers,
>
> David
>
> P.S. I notice R, which is similar in a *lot* of ways to
> IDL, doesn't have any problem with nice looking fonts in
> its plots. :-)
>
> --
> David Fanning, Ph.D.
> Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming (www.dfanning.com)
> Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")

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[Message index]

		Re: Nice Fonts in Direct Graphics By: natha on Tue, 10 February 2009 15:26
		Re: Nice Fonts in Direct Graphics By: Vince Hradil on Tue, 10 February 2009 12:38
		Re: Nice Fonts in Direct Graphics By: David Fanning on Tue, 10 February 2009 12:37
		Re: Nice Fonts in Direct Graphics By: David Fanning on Tue, 10 February 2009 12:18
		Re: Nice Fonts in Direct Graphics By: greg.addr on Tue, 10 February 2009 12:00
		Re: Nice Fonts in Direct Graphics By: Vince Hradil on Tue, 10 February 2009 10:30
		Re: Nice Fonts in Direct Graphics By: natha on Tue, 10 February 2009 09:33
		Re: Nice Fonts in Direct Graphics By: Haje Korth on Tue, 10 February 2009 09:09

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