| EPS printouts from IDL 4.0.1 [message #5569] |
Wed, 10 January 1996 00:00  |
Dale Bailey
Messages: 6
Registered: January 1996
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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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