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Re: Color question
- Subject: Re: Color question
- From: davidf(at)dfanning.com (David Fanning)
- Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 15:18:37 -0600
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.idl-pvwave
- Organization: Fanning Software Consulting
- References: <9adduv$avn$1@SonOfMaze.dpo.uab.edu>
- Xref: news.doit.wisc.edu comp.lang.idl-pvwave:24321
R. Kyle Justice (rkj@dukebar.crml.uab.edu) writes:
> I have a filled contour plot that I would like to
> display with a color bar. Everything looks fine
> on the screen but when I try to print, the colors
> on the bar are no longer correct. They appear
> washed out(dithered?). The contour colors, however,
> appear correct. If I look at the file with
> ghostscript, everything looks fine.
>
> I am generating the color bar with TV. It seems
> that the printer is treating a plot and an image
> differently.
Be sure you set BITS_PER_PIXEL to 8 on your
device command. There are only 4 bits per pixel
saved for image pixel by default. Enough for
only 16 colors.
Cheers,
David
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