| Publication-quality plots [message #39650] |
Wed, 02 June 2004 04:15  |
Kristian Kjær
Messages: 4
Registered: June 2004
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How do people get nice pictures in MS-word files?
To produce text with publication-quality plots in it, the best, surely,
is to write postscript files from IDL and insert them in LATEX.
However, various constraints mean that often I have to write the text in
MS-word.
Then it works to insert eps-files and print on a postscript printer, but
on the screen you see at best a preview of the graphic.
I've usually done as follows:
Write ps-file, read ps-file into CorelDraw, copy drawing to windows
clipboard, in MS-word paste-special. Then I get four options.
I choose 'picture'. ('CorelDrawObject' may work too, but 'Picture (enh.
metafile)' is bad, and 'Dev indep. Bitmap' er horrible.)
The result seems to be a vector graphic (scaleable in MS-word) that is
_almost_ as good as the original ps-file.
With !P.font =1 (for truetype) I note the ps-file does not contain real
truetype letters. It has the letters rendered (not too well, in fact) as
vector strokes.
Also, the whole procedure is too slow.
Now instead I tried writing a windows metafile.
However with !P.font =1 (for truetype) the letters are much worse than
in postscript, with !P.font =1 (for ps-fonts) the letters don't rotate,
and even good on !P.font =-1 (for Hershey) doesn't work well.
Thanks for any insight.
- Kristian
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