| Re: IMDISP and writing to Postscript [message #65960 is a reply to message #65872] |
Mon, 30 March 2009 10:05  |
mankoff
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On Mar 29, 7:55 am, Jeremy Bailin <astroco...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
Yes. Finally usable too. Do you install via fink or some other
method?
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.
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.
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