|> To subscribers of the xforms list from "Robert S. Mallozzi"
|> <mallors@crazyhorse.msfc.nasa.gov> :
|>
|> On 13 Aug, Steve Lamont wrote:
|> >
|> > I haven't seen any good, freely available, postscript plotting
|> > software around. Anyone on the list have any pointers?
|> >
|> > spl
|>
|> Install the demo version of IDL (Interactive Data Language) from
|> Research Systems, Inc (/cgi-bin/exit-to?http://www.rsinc.com). The demo mode is limited
|> to 7 minutes per session, and does not allow you to write out data
|> files. However, it does allow you to write out PostScript files.
|> The software is excellent for creating plots, and it is very easy to
|> program. You could write out the data file from your xforms app, and
|> read it and plot with IDL.
|>
|>
I often use "ImageMagick" to convert from *anything* to *anything*, including
PostScript.
ImageMagick is available from: (the version # may have been updated by now)
ftp://ftp.wizards.dupont.com/pub/ImageMagick/ImageMagick-3.7.7.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/applications/ImageMagick/ImageMagick-3.7.7.tar.gz
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>From ImageMagick README
ImageMagick utilities recognizes these image formats:
Tag Description
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AVS AVS X image file
BMP Microsoft Windows bitmap image file
CMYK Raw cyan, magenta, yellow, and black bytes
EPS Adobe Encapsulated Postscript
FAX Group 3
FITS Flexible Image Transport System
GIF Compuserve Graphics image file
GRAY Raw gray bytes
HDF Hierarchical Data Format.
JPEG Joint Photographic Experts Group file interchange format
MAP colormap intensities and indices
MATTE Raw matte bytes
MIFF Magick image file format
MPEG Motion Picture Experts Group digital video
MTV MTV ray tracer image format
PCD Photo CD
PCX ZSoft IBM PC Paintbrush file
PDF Portable Document Format
PICT Apple Macintosh QuickDraw/PICT file
PNG Portable Network Graphics
PNM Portable bitmap
PS Adobe PostScript file
PS2 Adobe PostScript Level II file
RAD Radiance image file
RGB Raw red, green, and blue bytes
RLA Alias/Wavefront image file; read only
RLE Utah Raster Toolkit
SUN SUN Raster image file format
TGA Truevision Targa image file
TEXT raw text file; read only
TIFF Tagged Image File Format
UYVY 16bit/pixel interleaved YUV (e.g. AccomWSD)
VICAR Planetary File Format
VID Visual Image Directory
VIFF Khoros Visualization image file
X select image from X server screen
XC constant image of X server background color
XBM X11 bitmap
XPM X11 pixmap
XWD X11 window dump
YUV CCIR 601 4:1:1 file.
and for your convenience automatically converts most of these
alien image format to MIFF at execution time. However, the
MIFF image format has several advantages over most image
formats (i.e. runlength encoding, visual image dorectories, digital
signature on an image colormap, etc.). ImageMagick is designed to
exploit these advantages. Whenever possible convert an alien image
format to the MIFF format before using the various ImageMagick
programs.
Other formats may also be recognized. See CONVERT(1) for a
list of valid image formats. You can specify a particular
image format by prefixing the image filename with the image
type and a colon (i.e. ps:image).
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On Sun systems you have "pageview" for viewing and printing PS files,
or if you run CDE, there is "ImageViewer" bundled.
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