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Re: Nice Fonts in Direct Graphics [message #65101 is a reply to message #65100]

Tue, 10 February 2009 12:37

David Fanning
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David Fanning writes:

> 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!

Perhaps you could have a keyword to set user expectations
appropriately. Something like this:

IDL> MyPlot, data, /HIGH_QUALITY_RENDERING

It would not only take him a long time to type, but
it would be put it in his mind that it will take a
long time to render, too. :-)

Cheers,

David
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		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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