| Re: More cgplot, ps_start, ps_end problems [message #75249 is a reply to message #75248] |
Sat, 19 February 2011 12:10   |
Gray
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On Feb 19, 2:59 pm, Gray <grayliketheco...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Feb 19, 1:35 pm, David Fanning <n...@idlcoyote.com> wrote:
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>> David Fanning writes:
>>> Well, actually, it appears ImageMagick is struggling a bit
>>> with encapsulated PostScript files. I'll have to look into
>>> this some more. I've never tried to turn encapsulated
>>> PostScript files into raster files, so I don't know what
>>> that problem might be.
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>> I am beginning to suspect that the encapsulated PostScript
>> files IDL produces might be the culprit here. Here is what
>> I have done.
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>> I created a simple encapsulated PostScript file in IDL.
>> I tried to read this file in Adobe Illustrator. I couldn't
>> open it.
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>> I opened another similar image file in Adobe Illustrator
>> and saved that as an encapsulated PostScript file.
>> ImageMagick had no difficulty creating a PNG file from
>> that encapsulated PostScript file.
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>> I created an encapsulated PostScript file from an iPlot,
>> and tried to open this in Adobe Illustrator. It complained
>> about a missing font, but it opened the file just fine.
>> This file was also able to be converted to a PNG file
>> by ImageMagick just fine.
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>> So, the culprit seems to be the traditional PostScript
>> device driver.
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>> I seem to recall something about problems with IDL
>> encapsulated PostScript output, but I can't put my
>> finger on it. Does anyone remember? I am running
>> IDL 7.1.1 on Windows
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>> Cheers,
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>> David
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>> --
>> David Fanning, Ph.D.
>> Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
>> Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming:http://www.idlcoyote.com/
>> Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")
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> OOOOh... /NOMATCH should definitely help. Oops. Thanks!
OK, so after /nomatch the .eps file looks fine, but ImageMagick still
can't find it to convert to a PNG... I'll update my CG and try
again! :)
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