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Re: Migrate away from idl? [message #68753 is a reply to message #68681]

Thu, 19 November 2009 13:24

David Fanning
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Ed Hyer writes:

> Does it take 10-20 extra lines to get your PostScript up to pub.
> quality in IDL? Yes it does, but you only have to write them once.
> IDL's default settings could be better, but if you expect the default
> settings to be exactly what you need, you're either doing something
> really simple, or you've little experience. It's amazing, reading this
> thread, to think how much damage IDL has done to themselves by not
> setting FONT=0 as the default for PostScript.

Well, not to mention BITS_PER_PIXEL=4 and COLOR=0.
Say what!? That is SO 1970's!

Cheers,

David

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		Migrate away from idl? By: Brian Larsen on Wed, 18 November 2009 15:29
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		Re: Migrate away from idl? By: David Fanning on Thu, 19 November 2009 13:50
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		Re: Migrate away from idl? By: Josh on Wed, 09 December 2009 11:36
		Re: Migrate away from idl? By: MarioIncandenza on Thu, 19 November 2009 13:39
		Re: Migrate away from idl? By: David Fanning on Thu, 19 November 2009 13:28
		Re: Migrate away from idl? By: David Fanning on Thu, 19 November 2009 13:24
		Re: Migrate away from idl? By: David Fanning on Thu, 19 November 2009 13:21
		Re: Migrate away from idl? By: Brian Larsen on Thu, 19 November 2009 13:16
		Re: Migrate away from idl? By: MarioIncandenza on Thu, 19 November 2009 13:03
		Re: Migrate away from idl? By: Trae on Thu, 19 November 2009 12:05
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		Re: Migrate away from idl? By: Brian Larsen on Thu, 19 November 2009 11:33
		Re: Migrate away from idl? By: Michael Galloy on Thu, 19 November 2009 09:22
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		Re: Migrate away from idl? By: Michael Galloy on Fri, 27 November 2009 06:59
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