| Re: EPS printouts from IDL 4.0.1 [message #5551] |
Fri, 12 January 1996 00:00  |
Kenneth S. Kump
Messages: 5
Registered: June 1995
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Here is my two cents:
I find the easiest way to position text and create postscript or encapsulated
postscript is to use the built-in annotate procedure. It works on the
current window.
You can include text (rotate, scale, choose fonts), make lines, polygons, etc.
Once you are satisfied with the plot, you do File>ExportBitmap (don't be
fooled by the File>Save box--that's for saving the actual annotations). There
is
a postscript option(as well as Gif and Tif). It prompts with a filename
and you are done! If you want encapsulated PS, choose Options box and click
on Encapsulated...It even allows you to specify landscape/portrait and the
output width. It is a little difficult getting used-to the annotate
environment but it is an "easy" solution for most users. I have successfully
included this output into my LATEX documents.
--
Ken Kump
Biomedical Image Processing Laboratory
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
E-mail: kump@morph.ebme.cwru.edu
Dale Bailey <dale> wrote:
> I am a bit new to this so I hope this is not an old question that everyone
> knows already. I am using IDL 4.0.1 on a Sparc 20 (Solaris 5.3), and am trying
> to produce a plot in PostScript for printing. I want to annotate the graph
> (as in the Ref Manual V4 N-Z, Chap 3, pp3-46 ff.). I have found the following:
> * If I do not use the keyword /ENCAPSULATED, I get a PostScript file, which
> I cannot annotate readily (multiple XYOUTS calls overwrite), but it does print;
> * If I use /ENCAPSULATED, I can annotate at will (with XYOUTS), I can view it
> with the display tool (ImageTool) in Soalris on the screen, but it won't print
> to any of our printers (tried a Xerox 4520MP and a HP);
> * I could not see how to position the plot with /ENCAPSULATED, as you can't
> use XOFFSET and YOFFSET with /ENCAPSULATED, and the reference manual's
> advice to change the size is not really for positioning it seems;
> * Once I use the command DEVICE with /ENCAPSUALTED this appears to stay in
> effect for the rest of the IDL session, even if I remove /ENCAPSULATED from
> the command and re-compile the procedure.
>
> Any suggestions? When I try to print an encapsulated PostScript file produced
> by IDL I do get an inital response from the printer, and then nothing - no
> error msgs, nothing at all. This all seems rather messy,and inconsistent.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Dale Bailey
> MRC Cyclotron Unit
> Hammersmith Hospital,
> London. UK.
>
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