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Re: colour + nice fonts [message #43965]

Mon, 09 May 2005 08:53

Paolo Grigis
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Registered: December 2003

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Margrethe wrote:
> hello!
>
> I'm trying to create a nice-looking colour plot as jpg for my
> presentation.
> Following various advice, I first make the plot twice as big as I want
> it and thereafter use tvrd and tvimage to display it half the original
> size so that the plotting symbols, numbers and characters appear nice
> and smooth. But the color information is lost! Any idea how I can
> solve this?

Since the jpg format is not the best one for plots anyway, I would
suggest to use the eps format if your presentation software can handle
it. (powerpoint is surprisingly good with eps figures!).

Paolo

> Help is very much appreciated!
>
> set_plot,'x'
> window,xsize=1200,ysize=1200
> !p.font=1
> device,set_font='Helvetica',/TT_font
>
> [plotting...]
>
> im=tvrd( )
> window,1,xsize=600,ysize=600
> tvimage,rebin(im,600,600) <---- greyscale :-(
>

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		Re: colour + nice fonts By: Paolo Grigis on Mon, 09 May 2005 08:53
		Re: colour + nice fonts By: David Fanning on Mon, 09 May 2005 07:41
		Re: colour + nice fonts By: maarten on Mon, 09 May 2005 07:38

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