| Re: IMDISP and writing to Postscript [message #65948 is a reply to message #65913] |
Tue, 31 March 2009 06:49  |
Jeremy Bailin
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Registered: April 2008
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On Mar 30, 1:05 pm, mankoff <mank...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mar 29, 7:55 am, Jeremy Bailin <astroco...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Mar 28, 5:24 pm, ed.schm...@gmail.com wrote:
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>>> On Mar 27, 9:03 am, Brian Larsen <balar...@gmail.com> wrote:> Right I have learned that Preview.app lesson that hard way on more
>>>> than one occasion. The ps file is fine is the pdf that is no good
>>>> that you are really viewing.
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>>>> Instead of illustrator I find the easiest solution to use Acrobat
>>>> Distiller, I have it set as the default application for ps/eps files.
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>>> Emily,
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>>> Two other ways of viewing .ps files under OSX are the Gimp and
>>> Photoshop Elements. I tried both of these with your 5x5 idl.ps file,
>>> and both of them display the image without any smoothing.
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>>> Ed Schmahl
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>>>> Double-click and it makes pdfs that look great. Of course you have to
>>>> have acrobat pro to have this but if you do its a great solution.
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>>>> Brian
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>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------ --------------
>>>> Brian Larsen
>>>> Boston University
>>>> Center for Space Physicshttp://people.bu.edu/balarsen/Home/IDL
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>> And there's always ghostview! Still the fastest way of looking at a ps
>> file that I know of in OSX.
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>> -Jeremy.
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> Yes. Finally usable too. Do you install via fink or some other
> method?
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> About a year or two ago the fink gv required installing all of gnome.
> What a bizarre waste of space and dependencies. Your post made me re-
> check it and it appears gv is now slim again, and a new package ggv
> exists which includes gnome.
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> gv has the beautiful feature of 'watching' a file, so you can re-
> create and fine-tune your postscript file while leaving gv running to
> the side or on a second monitor and see your changes in realtime.
Via fink. I think I bit the bullet and installed all of gnome (I
remember that there was one package that I desperately needed that
forced me to do that, and it may well have been gv) - good to know
that they've fixed that!
-Jeremy.
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