On June 7, 2004 03:22 am, Marco Morandini wrote:
> Fred Nastos wrote:
> >
> > This thread is a little old, but I just want to confirm that the
> > PsVectorPrint module that is available at the above link indeed
> > works to make vector postscript files. It's not perfect, since in one
> > figure a surface that looked opaque in the Image preview window
> > (and for which I set the opacity to 1.0) was a little transparent in
> > the postscript output, and the resulting files are a little larger than
> > I'd expect, but they definitely look good.
> >
> > In the above link the author comments that he found that proper
> > ps output was being produced only sporadically. I also noticed
> > sporadic output with software rendering, but for hardware rendering
> > the module seems to consistently work.
> >
> > I guess because the gl2ps code used in this module is GPL that
> > even if the module were polished it couldn't be incorporated into
> > OpenDX.
>
> Just to let you know that a new version
> is downloadable from
>
> http://www.aero.polimi.it/~morandin/PlotPostscript1.tgz
>
> Tested with gl2ps-1.1.2.
> Any feedback is welcome.
I have been testing it with gl2ps-1.2.0. Works well.
With your new version I definitely see some improvements.
The surface in the postscript image that was coming out
semi-transparent before (see above) is now opaque as it
is in the OpenDX viewer. I'm not sure if the lack of
transparency led to a smaller filesize but the postscript file
is now 5 mb (vs 90 mb before!).
I am having less succes getting the PlotPostscript to actually
produce a non-blank postscript file though. The success rate
is much less (say 25%) than before.
I'm not sure if this is because I used gl2ps-1.2.0, but I am getting
an error/warning in the Message Window:
GL2PS info: OpenGL feedback buffer overflow.
This didn't happen with your older version of PlotPostscript even
though I was using gl2ps-1.2.0 before also. I only get this warning
with a large/complicated image.
Finally, again possibly due to the version of gl2ps I used, I
find that the "no sorting" option is not allowed.
Still, it is great module. Thanks.
