output

[Mark Shinwell]

On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 11:31:01AM -0000, graham.mullan wrote:
> Does anyone know of a way of directly outputting a Survex plot as a bitmap (or
> anything else, preferably a tiff) so that it can be modified on-screen for
> publication, rather than having to use the low-tech option of print and scan?

I use GhostScript for this purpose (see http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/).
For example:

printps -p -b 0 -s 1:500 -o svx.ps survey.3d
gs -sDEVICE=tifflzw -sOutputFile=svx-%d.tif -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -r300 svx.ps

(where 300 is the resolution in DPI).  This will produce output files
svx-1.tif, svx-2.tif etc, depending on how many pages were printed by
printps.

Be warned that enormous output bitmaps can result!

Mark

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