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Sizing Postscript output [message #403]

Thu, 27 August 1992 05:51

kaplan
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Registered: August 1992

Junior Member

I need a reliable way to make WYSIWYG X-window plots of what will eventually
be postscript driven paper output. The basic problem seems to be controlling
the relationship between font size and plot size.

Currently, in order to make postscript output of PV-WAVE graphs, I have been
opening a postscript device as follows:

set_plot,'ps'
device,filename='graph.ps',xsize=6.0,ysize=6.0,/inches,yoffs et=2,xoffset=+1

and then I resume plotting to the screen something like this:

device,/close
set_plot,'X'
window,0,xsize=500,ysize=500

For different plots, I play with the obvious parameters in the device line.

Does anyone know a formula relating X-window pixel sizes to postscript sizes.
Something which requires me to measure my X-window pixels before beginning
would be just fine.

Many thanks,

Peter (kaplan@sol1.lrsm.upenn.edu)

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