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Re: Using contour in postscripts produces a "stripe" effect? [message #65713 is a reply to message #65622]

Mon, 16 March 2009 03:16

Andy Heaps
Messages: 22
Registered: March 2006

Junior Member

Hi Rob,
did you use the ImageMagick command convert to produce the PNG file?
If so then try:
convert -density 400 -resize 25% file.eps file.png

Cheers
Andy

robparker23@googlemail.com wrote:
> I was hoping that someone could help.
>
> When I create contour plots in the postscript device, they always seem
> to contain some manner of "striping".
>
> My code looks like:
>
>
>
> SET_PLOT, 'ps'
>
> loadct, 39
> !p.color=0
> !p.background=255
>
> filename = 'contour.eps'
> DEVICE, FILENAME=filename, /COLOR, BITS_PER_PIXEL=8, /ENCAPSULATED, /
> PORTRAIT, XSIZE=18, YSIZE=8, XOFFSET=5, YOFFSET=2
>
> contour,mean,lons,heights, /cell_fill, yrange=[300,50], xrange=
> [-175,175], levels=lev, ystyle=1, xstyle=1
> , position=[0.1,0.15,0.85,0.9], charsize=1, charthick=2
>
> DEVICE, /CLOSE
>
>
>
> Hopefully you can see from the image here what I mean:
> http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/5319/contourstripingexample .png
>
> Anyone any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

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		Using contour in postscripts produces a "stripe" effect? By: robparker23 on Sun, 15 March 2009 10:11
		Re: Using contour in postscripts produces a "stripe" effect? By: robparker23 on Mon, 16 March 2009 13:19
		Re: Using contour in postscripts produces a "stripe" effect? By: Homeyer on Mon, 16 March 2009 08:30
		Re: Using contour in postscripts produces a "stripe" effect? By: Andy Heaps on Mon, 16 March 2009 03:16
		Re: Using contour in postscripts produces a "stripe" effect? By: David Fanning on Sun, 15 March 2009 15:33
		Re: Using contour in postscripts produces a "stripe" effect? By: robparker23 on Sun, 15 March 2009 14:58
		Re: Using contour in postscripts produces a "stripe" effect? By: David Fanning on Sun, 15 March 2009 14:49

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