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Re: Multi-page graphics in IDL 8 [message #72506 is a reply to message #72371]

Tue, 07 September 2010 06:34

Paul Van Delst[1]
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Kenneth P. Bowman wrote:
> In article
> <8a5d65d5-be94-4b27-9e97-9ffff6cfe4ba@u5g2000prn.googlegroups.com>,
> Mark Piper <mpiper@ittvis.com> wrote:
>
>> Spawning a call to ImageMagick's 'convert' program will join several
>> PS files into a single PDF file:
>>
>> infiles = ['plot1.eps', 'plot2.eps']
>> infiles = strjoin(infiles, ' ')
>> outfile = 'plots.pdf'
>> cmd = 'convert -density 300 ' + infiles + ' -quality 100 ' + outfile
>> spawn, cmd
>
> Thanks. I'm aware of several ways to concatenate PDF files, but if New
> Graphics can't make multi-page documents, it will be a significant loss
> of convenience. In fact, I think we will have to stay with Old Graphics
> for most purposes.

Yeah, no kidding. But, just to clarify (since I don't create PDF files directly from IDL), are you saying that the
creation of multi-page postscript files is no longer possible with IDL8 New Graphics?

cheers,

paulv

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		Re: Multi-page graphics in IDL 8 By: Kenneth P. Bowman on Fri, 03 September 2010 10:40
		Re: Multi-page graphics in IDL 8 By: Mark Piper on Fri, 03 September 2010 08:00
		Re: Multi-page graphics in IDL 8 By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Tue, 07 September 2010 06:34

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