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Re: Postscript device weirdness

by mchinand@[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Chinander) Feb 7, 2008 at 04:08 PM

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nathan12343  <nathan12343@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>Hi all-
>
>
>device,filename='plot.ps',/inches,xoffset=3,yoffset=2,xsize=5,ysize=5
>
>When I print out the postscript file, the plot sits on the bottom left
>corner of the page, as if I hadn't set the xoffset and yoffset
>keywords at all.  However, the following code works fine:
>
>device,filename='plot.ps',/inches,xsize=5,ysize=5,xoffset=2,yoffset=3
>
>What I'm wondering is why on earth the device procedure cares about
>the order of the parameters.  I'm not aware of any other IDL
>procedures that behave this way.  Is there some reason why it does, or
>is it some kind of bug in IDL 6.3?
>

You have swapped the values for the offsets between each case not just the
order of the keywords.
 




 5 Posts in Topic:
Postscript device weirdness
nathan12343 <nathan123  2008-02-07 00:57:37 
Re: Postscript device weirdness
David Fanning <news@[E  2008-02-07 07:14:22 
Re: Postscript device weirdness
mchinand@[EMAIL PROTECTED  2008-02-07 16:08:05 
Re: Postscript device weirdness
caitouer <caitouer@[EM  2008-02-08 12:52:55 
Re: Postscript device weirdness
David Fanning <news@[E  2008-02-08 13:59:52 

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