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Re: Use the device fonts for Ytitle on screen [message #68631 is a reply to message #68629]

Wed, 11 November 2009 14:13

David Fanning
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pp writes:

> On Nov 11, 7:50 pm, David Fanning <da...@dfanning.com> wrote:
>
>> You will have to use Matlab or R to draw your plots if you want
>> beautiful. IDL direct graphics doesn't do beautiful. Maybe you
>> want to try an object graphics plot (e.g, xplot in my library,
>> for example). Those fonts are mostly beautiful. :-)
>
> Or try iplot.

Or, if it's kludgy solutions you are after, draw the plot
in PostScript, convert it to PNG with ImageMagick, and display
*that* in an un-resizable IDL graphics window. The Y axis will
look great! ;-)

Cheers,

David

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		Re: Use the device fonts for Ytitle on screen By: David Fanning on Wed, 11 November 2009 15:06
		Re: Use the device fonts for Ytitle on screen By: duxiyu@gmail.com on Wed, 11 November 2009 14:57
		Re: Use the device fonts for Ytitle on screen By: David Fanning on Wed, 11 November 2009 14:28
		Re: Use the device fonts for Ytitle on screen By: David Fanning on Wed, 11 November 2009 14:13
		Re: Use the device fonts for Ytitle on screen By: penteado on Wed, 11 November 2009 14:04
		Re: Use the device fonts for Ytitle on screen By: David Fanning on Wed, 11 November 2009 13:50

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