| Re: IDL8.0 plot() function : how to plot to PS file like with DG "Set_Plot"? [message #72518 is a reply to message #72415] |
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Paul Van Delst[1]
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David Fanning wrote:
> Chris Torrence writes:
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>> Our assumption with the new graphics output was that people would use
>> EPS files for importing into other programs - LaTeX documents, MS
>> Word, Powerpoint, etc. And they would use PDF output for stand-alone
>> files, where you want just the graphics on a piece of paper.
>>
>> If there is a specific need for regular PS files, we would love to
>> hear about it, so we can consider adding support for this.
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> To some extent, whether you need old technology depends upon
> whether the new technology works as well as or better than
> the old. If it doesn't work as well, people might be slow
> to adopt it.
And don't underestimate the time cost to switching. If it's easy to switch (e.g. change a paraticular call or keyword)
no worries. If it's not, then a lot of folks won't...until they absolutely have to. I use IDL to free up time so I can
worry about the minutiae of problems that actually interest me (you know, like, science-y stuff).
> Just this morning I was exploring PDF output, for example.
> I created a 3D plot (plot3d) with a legend (legend). All
> looks as it should on my display. But when I saved the
> file to a PDF file and opened that with Acrobat, the
> names in the legend extend outside the legend box.
> Pretty ugly.
Urg. That doesn't bode well. Sounds like there is a complete new set of fudge factors to learn to make plots appear wysiwyg.
> I presume this can be fixed (although I haven't
> yet discovered how), but it does make you wish for
> the old days when it happens to you first thing on
> a Monday morning. :-)
Ha ha! Maybe the lesson here is to never do any IDL graphics programming until Tuesday? :o)
After introspection over the weekend (riding over hills near the Catoctin mtns on a single speed tends to make one think
about anything other than the hurt factor) I'm convinced the NG approach is a good one - a much better one than straight
OG/iTools. ITTVIS still has some work to do to iron out some issues, but with the new NG interface the majority of the
work -- from a user perspective at least -- seems to be done.
cheers,
paulv
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