Well, I did not even try to compile the example, but I did go ahead and
tried to do in my program what you suggest: to use the "-portrait"
command line argument. So, in my program, I simply set such argument
internally with "plsetopt('portrait','')", and guess what...I do get a
nice portrait plot!
I think the test above was done in Solaris (using 3-year old PLplot
installation), since right now I can't compile and run anything in Linux
(latest version).
So, for as long as "nothing" produces landscape and 'portrait' produces
portrait...I was thinking of writing to two streams at the same time,
one initialized to the default and the second to 'portrait'. Then, I
can pick individual pages from each file at will to produce the desired
final document, say, with pages 1 and 3 in landscape and page 2 in
portrait.
Except that, while the latest documentation for PLplot says that opening
two streams is possible, the one version that I am currently using in
Solaris seems to be version 5.3.1 and it does not let me open on stream
after the other one ...it keeps complaining that plsdev() needs to be
before plinit(), even though I issued plsstrm(1) after the first
plinit().
Was opening two streams not allowed in version 5.3.1? If that is the
case, I am going to have to wait until Tuesday for the one guy who
installs PLplot in Linux for me...somehow, it does not seem to be
working.
Until later.
G.Salazar
-----Original Message-----
From: Alan W. Irwin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2007 11:37 AM
To: Salazar, German P21322
Cc: plplot-general@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Plplot-general] post-processing with plrender.
P.S.
German, mail delivery from plplot-general is not working very well.
Thus, I
never got Maurice's response to your initial post and only realized he
had responded from one of your later e-mails that quoted his response.
He is the expert on plrender. From his reply it appears my mental model
of
plrender is not correct, and it is much lower level than I thought. The
fundamental issue is that -dev plmeta has fallen into disuse so
volunteers
have not stepped forward to fix it. Anyhow, since the issue you found
is a
known long-standing problem with plrender, it is clearly a
"would-be-nice"
fix rather than a showstopper for our next release, and using other
devices
directly is the preferred option now.
To answer your question about -dev psc, I can use the -ori, -a, and
-portrait
options with with no problems.
For example, I get the expected results using
./x01c -dev psc -portrait -o test.ps
Do you? (Note ./x01c is one of the installed examples which you should
be
able to find in $prefix/share/plplot5.7.4/examples/c after you run the
"make install" command. $prefix is the
installation prefix you set with the cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX
option.)
Once you can confirm portrait success for the installed examples, then
copy
their style for your own examples.
Alan
__________________________
Alan W. Irwin
Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and
Astronomy,
University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca).
Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state
implementation
for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting
software
package (plplot.org); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads
of
Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project
(lbproject.sf.net).
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