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Re: No screen description in EPS files. [message #489] Thu, 09 July 1992 17:04 Go to previous message
axel is currently offline  axel
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In article <52P48LW@math.fu-berlin.de> dit@vaxser.grumed.fu-berlin.de writes:
> Hello IDL users around the globe,
>
> there is a problem with plotting to an Encapsulated
> PostScript (EPS) file. IDL (V2.1) didn't put any screen
> description of the plot (in TIFF, PICT or a other
> "pixel"-standard) t o g e t h e r with the Post-
> Script code into the EPS file.
>
> When exporting such an EPS file (via network) to
> another application (suppose to "PageMaker" running
> on a Macintosh computer) there will be seen on the
> screen the PostScript bounding box only. So it's very
> hard positioning the plot in a document or making some
> additions to the text of the plot.
>
> Has there anybody a solution ?
> Probably RSI should have one, I didn't know.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Karl-Heinz.
> ____________________________________________________________ ___
> Dipl.-Ing. Karl-Heinz Dittberner | Address: Arnimallee 22
> Dept. Scientific Data Processing | D-1000 Berlin 33
> c/o Free University of Berlin | Phone: (+4930) 838 2531
> E-Mail: dit@vaxser.grumed.fu-berlin.de (Internet)


I am using IDL version 2.3 and there now is a switch on the device
command to produce an EPSI file that will include a Bitmap that can
be imported to other applications such as Frame etc.

gruesse Axel

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