| Re: Religious Wars [message #78060 is a reply to message #78059] |
Tue, 25 October 2011 07:33   |
vto
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Registered: January 2011
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On Oct 25, 10:25 am, vto <vto...@cfa.harvard.edu> wrote:
> On Oct 24, 6:07 pm, David Fanning <n...@dfanning.com> wrote:
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>> Folks,
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>> I am not trying to start a religious war here, but I
>> have some reason to believe the software Mac owners
>> use to view PostScript files is screwy. :-)
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>> Or maybe it's Windows user's software, I don't know.
>> I'm just trying to get to the bottom of a perplexing
>> problem.
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>> The issue concerns encapsulated PostScript files. Here
>> are two encapsulated PostScript files:
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>> http://www.idlcoyote.com/misc/a_orig.eps
>> http://www.idlcoyote.com/misc/a_modified.eps
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>> If I open these files on my Windows machine, using the
>> latest version of GSView (a GUI to GhostScript), then
>> the a_orig.eps file looks perfect as long as I modify the
>> GSView view to landscape orientation. If I view the
>> a_modified.eps file, the output looks cut off at the far
>> end in both portrait and landscape orientations.
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>> Oddly enough, Mac users find these results, too, but
>> for the opposite files!!!
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>> If I put these documents in, say, Google Docs, then
>> Google appears to agree with the Windows outlook
>> on things. Of course, if I put them in Windows documents
>> (Word, Framemaker, etc.) they agree with the Windows
>> outlook, too. In fact, the only thing that *doesn't*
>> agree with the Windows outlook, that I have been able
>> to find in my experimenting, are Macintosh applications.
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>> So, here is my question. Is this a religious war? Should
>> these eggs be broken on the big end or the little end?
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>> Any help greatly appreciated!
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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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> Hi David,
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> I tried these files on my Mac (Snow Leopard). The result is the same
> for distiller, preview, and gs. The a_orig.eps file looks cut-off and
> the a_modified.eps looks fine. Rotating the figures does not change
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> Regards,
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> Volker
I have to add, that running a_orig.eps through eps2eps fixes the
problem for gv. I haven't checked, it just might fix the bounding box
to the correct size, an issue IDL has had all the time.
Volker
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