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Re: How do people print .ps and .pcl files on windows95 [message #7620]

Mon, 02 December 1996 00:00

Peter Mason
Messages: 145
Registered: June 1996

Senior Member

On 29 Nov 1996 dean@phobos.cira.colostate.edu wrote:
> Use the print manager to setup the default printer. Then select Edit/print
> then a little window will ask for you to double click on the plot you wish
> to print. The plot will come out of the defulat print. No need to save it
> as PCL or PS. You just need to select edit/print from the IDL window.

This captures and prints a plot window. i.e., It is a "bitmap" sort of
operation, and the quality of the print may be restricted by the plot
window's resolution (which is most likely much lower than the printer's).

If you want, you can send a .PS or .PCL file directly to the default
Windows printer (which must be of the same type - ps or pcl - as the file).
Generate the file, then just use DEVICE,PRINT_FILE=filename to print it
(where "filename" is the name you gave your printfile). I use this
under NT; it should work under 95.
This method has a drawback - the DEVICE,PRINT_FILE= command appears to
return before the file has been printed. (Well, I suppose this might
depend on how the printer's spooling has been set up.) So you have to
leave the printfile hanging around - if you delete it before it's been
printed, you could crash IDL.

Peter Mason

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		Re: How do people print .ps and .pcl files on windows95 By: Peter Mason on Mon, 02 December 1996 00:00
		Re: How do people print .ps and .pcl files on windows95 By: brian.jackel on Fri, 29 November 1996 00:00
		Re: How do people print .ps and .pcl files on windows95 By: dean on Fri, 29 November 1996 00:00

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