Re: IMDISP and writing to Postscript [message #65872] |
Sun, 29 March 2009 04:55  |
Jeremy Bailin
Messages: 618 Registered: April 2008
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On Mar 28, 5:24 pm, ed.schm...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Mar 27, 9:03 am, Brian Larsen <balar...@gmail.com> wrote:> Right I have learned that Preview.app lesson that hard way on more
>> than one occasion. The ps file is fine is the pdf that is no good
>> that you are really viewing.
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>> Instead of illustrator I find the easiest solution to use Acrobat
>> Distiller, I have it set as the default application for ps/eps files.
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> Emily,
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> Two other ways of viewing .ps files under OSX are the Gimp and
> Photoshop Elements. I tried both of these with your 5x5 idl.ps file,
> and both of them display the image without any smoothing.
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> Ed Schmahl
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>> Double-click and it makes pdfs that look great. Of course you have to
>> have acrobat pro to have this but if you do its a great solution.
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>> Brian
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>> Brian Larsen
>> Boston University
>> Center for Space Physicshttp://people.bu.edu/balarsen/Home/IDL
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And there's always ghostview! Still the fastest way of looking at a ps
file that I know of in OSX.
-Jeremy.
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