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Re: Polyshade and Postscript (beginner) [message #33119]

Wed, 11 December 2002 08:06

Simon de Vet
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Registered: May 2000

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David Fanning wrote:

> What you have in "volume" right now is a 2D image array.
> You want to TV that into a PostScript file. Things can
> get a LOT more elaborate than this, but this should get
> you started:
>
> thisDevice = !D.Name
> Set_Plot, 'PS'
> Device, XSize=6.5, YSize=6.5, /Inches, XOffset=1.0, $
> YOffset=2.25, Color=1, Bits_Per_Pixel=8, $
> Portrait = 1, Filename='myvolume.ps'
> TV, volume
> Device, /Close_File
> Set_Plot, thisDevice

This runs without error and generates the 'myvolume.ps' file, but the
file is empty - no plot.

On second glance, the file probably isn't empty - it's listed at 208 Mb,
so it's probably breaking my viewer.

Any tips on making this a bit smaller? (my data set is 20x20x20)

-- Simon

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		Re: Polyshade and Postscript (beginner) By: Simon de Vet on Wed, 11 December 2002 08:06
		Re: Polyshade and Postscript (beginner) By: David Fanning on Tue, 10 December 2002 12:36
		Re: Polyshade and Postscript (beginner) By: David Fanning on Wed, 11 December 2002 08:22

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