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Re: IDL-69024 bug fixed in v8.4? [message #91560 is a reply to message #91548]

Wed, 29 July 2015 13:49

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On Tuesday, July 28, 2015 at 1:07:03 PM UTC-6, Paul van Delst wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Once again, I'm tearing my hair out about the quality of
> function-graphics-generated PNG output (via Save method) versus the
> onscreen look.
>
> Searching the idl newsgroup arhive I found the post where
>
> <quote>
> $ export IDL_DISABLE_STROKED_LINES=1
>
> The issue has been reported as IDL-69024.
> </quote>
>
> would get around the issue (and it mostly does)
>
> Does anyone know if this problem was fixed in v8.4? (I still have 8.3).
> Chris Torrance talked about a new ANTIALIAS keyword to the ::Save method
> in a post back in Feb2014 - the online v8.4.1 docs tells me it's
> available in the ::Save method....but does it do the job?
>
> (I need a reason for an upgrade request)
>
> Thanks for any info.
>
> cheers,
>
> paulv

Hi paulv,

This bug is not fixed. It turns out to be a very difficult problem. I would recommend using either the IDL_DISABLE_STROKED_LINES workaround, or perhaps playing arount with the ANTIALIAS keyword which was added for IDL 8.4.

-Chris

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		IDL-69024 bug fixed in v8.4? By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Tue, 28 July 2015 12:06
		Re: IDL-69024 bug fixed in v8.4? By: Helder Marchetto on Wed, 29 July 2015 00:45
		Re: IDL-69024 bug fixed in v8.4? By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Mon, 03 August 2015 06:42
		Re: IDL-69024 bug fixed in v8.4? By: chris_torrence@NOSPAM on Wed, 29 July 2015 13:49
		Re: IDL-69024 bug fixed in v8.4? By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Mon, 03 August 2015 06:44

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