On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Gökhan Sever <gokhanse...@gmail.com>wrote:

>
>
> On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 10:08 AM, Jae-Joon Lee <lee.j.j...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 9:56 PM, Gökhan Sever <gokhanse...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > What could be causing this discrepancy? Is there any way to use an
>> > alternative PS creator with MPL? or an option to increase e.g. bits per
>> > pixel option somewhere in the configuration?
>> >
>>
>> There can be a lot of things. However, you cannot just say one is
>> better than the other  based on how it looks on your monitor screen.
>> As far as I can tell, postscript is best for printing, but not very
>> optimal for your monitor screen.
>>
>
> I printed the PNG and PS file. The result looks same on paper as well. I
> was comparing the two ps file one from IDL one from MPL. IDL looks neat both
> on the screen and printed.
>
>
>>
>> While matplotlib with the xpdf distiller could be better than
>> ghostsrcipt one in this regard, but, again, postscipt on your monitor
>> screen does not make much sense, at least to me.
>>
>> -JJ
>>
>
> OK, here is one more comparison.
>
> I use xpdf distiller, and set the pdf comparison to 0 in the rc file.
>
> http://ccnworks.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/test.png
> http://ccnworks.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/test.ps
> http://ccnworks.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/test.eps
> http://ccnworks.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/test.pdf
>
> PS and EPS outputs are almost alike to my eye. Setting ps.distiller.res to
> 6000 DPI doesn't make a difference either. PDF backend produces the highest
> quality output. However the problem with that I can't include pdf images on
> a regular OpenOffice document :(
>
> With xpdf the line is plotted blue correctly as it is seen on my screen.
> Before it was drawing a red-line.
>
> --
> Gökhan
>

It seems like ps.distiller.res parameter doesn't have an effect on the
output ps file. I set this to 60 and 6000 and 60000 it all produces same
sized same looking figures. Any ideas?

-- 
Gökhan
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