[comp.sys.mac.apps] Igor question

amhastings@ucdavis.edu (Alan Hastings) (02/21/91)

I have heard raves about Igor which elads me to one question--does
Igor produce postscript files?  That is the one reason why I use
Delta Graph.

email is fine

Alan Hastings
amhastings@ucdavis.edu

jeffe@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (George Jefferson ) (02/21/91)

:I have heard raves about Igor which elads me to one question--does
:Igor produce postscript files?  That is the one reason why I use
:Delta Graph.

The WaveMetrics people obviously put a great deal of effort into
thier demo distribution  ( I got it from d31rz0.stanford.edu )

What is conspicuously omitted is any means of evaluating the
export options and quality.

It would be nice if they could include a few examples of output,
in whatever formats are supported.  Postscript, EPSF, MacDraw II, etc.
(the demo documentation includes lots of nice screen dumps :-)





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hedstrom@sirius.UVic.CA (Brad Hedstrom) (02/22/91)

> :I have heard raves about Igor which elads me to one question--does
> :Igor produce postscript files?  That is the one reason why I use
> :Delta Graph.

I've been using Igor for about a year. Although at this time Igor does
not produce EPS files, it does generate very good PICT files and
exports high quality PICTs to the clipboard. I have done an experiment
where I 1) printed a graphs directly from Igor to a LaserWriter, 2) copied
the same graph from Igor (using their "laser" option) to the clipboard
and then pasted into Nisus, 3) and had Igor create a PICT file which was
imported into Quark Express. The results were excellent! There was
very little perceptible difference in the three methods, and no
difference that I could see between methods 1 and 3.
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