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Re: Cannot see anything in the postscript file. Any help? [message #79731 is a reply to message #79715]

Mon, 26 March 2012 22:18

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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Yemmy writes:

> I am relatively still new in the IDL community and I most
> often get lost when I encounter problems. In most cases,
> coyote guide/webpage has really helped alot.
> I have been seeing this strange feature whenever
> I use contour procedure or plot procedure: the
> postscript file will just become blank or sometimes
> create the axis but not the data inside or even
> sometime would not open at all. I have instead been
> using plot function and I just forget about it for
> a while, but now I have to make a contour and when
> I use a contour function, I encountered yet another
> problem which make me want to call for help.

I think the short answer to your problem is to just
use Coyote Graphics routines. These are designed to
work identically on your display and in a PostScript
file, and getting color right is the fundamental
purpose of the routines. Many of these problems will
just disappear if you use them.

http://www.idlcoyote.com/graphics_tips/coyote_graphics.php

Or, if you want to continue to use normal IDL routines,
but you want to understand why you are having problems
with them, I have an entire book devoted to nothing but
this topic. :-)

http://www.idlcoyote.com/books/index.php

Cheers,

David
--
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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		Re: Cannot see anything in the postscript file. Any help? By: David Fanning on Wed, 28 March 2012 09:59
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		Re: Cannot see anything in the postscript file. Any help? By: David Fanning on Mon, 26 March 2012 22:18
		Re: Cannot see anything in the postscript file. Any help? By: Yemmy on Fri, 30 March 2012 07:40

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