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Re: Configuring XPrinter

by Spon <christoph.blau@[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Feb 22, 2008 at 03:03 PM

On Feb 22, 2:39 pm, "Kenneth P. Bowman" <k-bow...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> I am going to make one more try at using the XPrinter printing system.
> I do this every few years whenever I miss the feeling of being intensely
> frustrated.
>
> Let me start with something very simple.
>
> I am running IDL 6.4 on Mac OS X 10.5.  To have a clean slate I move my
> .XPrinterDefaults to a new file and start IDL.  I create an iTool with
>
>    iSurface, DIST(50)
>
> and then select Print from the File menu.  The default output is EPSF to
> the file xprinter.eps.  I use all the defaults and click OK.
>
> An EPS file (xprinter.eps) appears in my home directory.  I open it, and
> unlike the onscreen graphic, it is grayscale.  No color.
>
> I would be delighted to get EPS output, but I need color.  There is no
> obvious way to turn color on in the Print dialog box.
>
> Is it possible to create color EPSF output?  If so, how?
>
> Thanks, Ken Bowman

Ken,

from:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encapsulated_PostScript

"... A fourth format known as a EPSI includes an ASCII-encoded preview
bitmap. This format allows for black-and-white previews only. It is
mainly used on UNIX systems. [...] An EPSI file will contain a line
starting %%BeginPreview: in the DSC prolog."

Does your .eps file have this %%BeginPreview: line?
Is it possible that this is what's happening, and that if you im****ted
your EPS file into another PS do***ent the colour would magically
reassert itself?

Just a thought,
Chris
 




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Configuring XPrinter
"Kenneth P. Bowman&q  2008-02-22 08:39:14 
Re: Configuring XPrinter
Spon <christoph.blau@[  2008-02-22 15:03:21 
Re: Configuring XPrinter
"Kenneth P. Bowman&q  2008-02-22 17:13:40 

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