| Re: IDL8.0 plot() function : how to plot to PS file like with DG "Set_Plot"? [message #72520 is a reply to message #72415] |
Mon, 20 September 2010 08:45   |
David Fanning
Messages: 11724
Registered: August 2001
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Chris Torrence writes:
> 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.
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> 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.
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.
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.
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. :-)
Cheers,
David
--
David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/
Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")
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