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Re: clipboard objects and postscript (unix) [message #13286]

Tue, 03 November 1998 00:00

davidf
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Registered: September 1996

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Sean O'Sea (seanosea@my-dejanews.com) writes:

> I'm afraid the problem seems to be an unhappy xclipboard. RSI recommended
> using the buffer object, instead, to avoid an intervening clipboard utility
> entirely:
>
>> The best alternative for creating a PostScript file from Object Graphics
>> output is to render the graphics to an IDLgrBuffer object, which will,
>> of course contain raster data. Then, using the IMAGE_DATA keyword to the
>> GetProperty method of the IDLgrBuffer object, you can retrieve the
>> graphics data into an image array. Finally, you can switch to the
>> PostScript device (SET_PLOT, 'PS') and use the TV procedure to render
>> the extracted image array to a PostScript file.

Sigh...It's come to this, has it? Well, with True-type fonts
it just might work.

> The IMAGE_DATA keyword doesn't seem to be documented, at least in the 5.1
> docs.

Recent experience suggests you try keywords that are defined for
other objects. They seem to work more often than not. :-)

Cheers,

David

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