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Re: Symsize doesn't seem to work? [message #65739 is a reply to message #65734]

Sun, 22 March 2009 05:55

Jeremy Bailin
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Registered: April 2008

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On Mar 20, 10:26 pm, Chris <beaum...@ifa.hawaii.edu> wrote:
> On Mar 20, 3:42 pm, stefan5...@hotmail.com wrote:
>
>
>
>> Dear all,
>
>> I'm trying to make plots with the post script device, and am trying to
>> increase the size of my psym=3 circular points to something that is
>> actually visible when saved as a .ps, but it doesn't seem to have any
>> effect. Can anyone see why from the below code? :
>> FOR i=0,a-1 DO BEGIN
>
>> !P.MULTI=0
>> SET_PLOT,'PS'
>> DEVICE,/ENCAPSULATED,FILENAME=string(filefolder)+'/Star'+str ing
>> (FORMAT='(I0)',ensarray[1,0,i])+'.ps',/color,bits_per_pixel= 8
>> loadct,13
>
>> plot,ensarray[0,*,i],ensarray[3,*,i],
>> $
>> psym=3,yrange=[min(ensarray[3,*,i]),max(ensarray
>> [3,*,i])],color=0,symsize=10.0,$
>> xtitle='HJD - 2450000',$
>> ytitle='dMag',$
>> title=' "Intrinsic Photometric Variability" of Star '+string
>> (FORMAT='(I0)',ensarray[1,0,i]),$
>> YSTYLE=8
>> AXIS,yaxis=1,yrange=[min(nofailarray[1,*,*]),max(nofailarray
>> [1,*,*])],/SAVE,ytitle='Airmass' ;Plots the right axis
>> oplot,nofailarray[0,*,0],nofailarray[1,*,0],psym =
>> 3,color=120,LINESTYLE=3
>
>> ENDFOR
>
> psym = 3 draws a single point, for which symsize do anything. Try
> another psym choice
>
> chris

If you want a filled circle (which is not the same as a dot!), I'm
sure several people have written routines that do this... for example,
with jbsymbol (http://astroconst.org/jbiu/jbiu-doc/plot/jbsymbol.html)
you could do:

jbsymbol, 6, /fill

and then use psym=8 and symsize=whatever.

-Jeremy.

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		Re: Symsize doesn't seem to work? By: David Fanning on Sun, 22 March 2009 15:45
		Re: Symsize doesn't seem to work? By: Jeremy Bailin on Sun, 22 March 2009 05:55
		Re: Symsize doesn't seem to work? By: Chris[6] on Fri, 20 March 2009 19:26
		Re: Symsize doesn't seem to work? By: David Klassen on Tue, 24 March 2009 04:53

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