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Re: Making a scaleable plot for use in publications [message #81830 is a reply to message #81829]

Wed, 24 October 2012 16:48

David
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Liam writes:

> Sorry, yes, I meant plots in PDF documents.
>
> Will the cgPS2PDF work for all eps plots? Say I use the contour command to make a plot, with true type fonts. Will that scale properly as well? I haven't got access to IDL at the moment, so can't check.

Honestly, I don't know what will happen with EPS plots. I nearly
always just create PS plots. But, yes, cgPS2PDF should work
with any PostScript plot. The program requires GhostScript be
installed, and it is GhostScript that is doing the convertion
of PostScript to PDF.

EPS files have bounding boxes. I don't know how these
are handled by GhostScript when doing the conversion
to PDF. EPS files are restricted to Portrait mode, too,
which may matter to you when you create the PDF output.

Cheers,

David

P.S. It looks to me like EPS files are restricted in
size (what I would expect, actually) when they are
converted to PDF.

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		Re: Making a scaleable plot for use in publications By: liamsteele on Wed, 24 October 2012 18:10
		Re: Making a scaleable plot for use in publications By: David on Wed, 24 October 2012 17:12
		Re: Making a scaleable plot for use in publications By: David on Wed, 24 October 2012 16:48
		Re: Making a scaleable plot for use in publications By: liamsteele on Wed, 24 October 2012 16:30
		Re: Making a scaleable plot for use in publications By: DavidF[1] on Wed, 24 October 2012 15:48

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