[Skill] Printing Wavescan plots to a file

[spectrallypure]

Hi all! I haven't been able to use the hardCopyOptions() / hardCopy()
functions to print Wavescan plots. The following code works fine when
the plots are drawn with the old AWD:

;...
my_window = newWindow()
;...some waveform plotting...
hardCopyOptions(?hcNumCopy 1 \
?hcPlotterName "epsfC" \
?hcOrientation 'landscape \
?hcPaperSize "11x17" \
?hcOutputFile "~/testplot.ps" )
hardCopy(my_window)
;...

Using this code the plot is generated correctly and I get the
following output at the CIW:

\w *WARNING* **** /home/lagos/cds/tests/IC_5.1.41/tools/
plot/.cdsplotinit
\o Loading /home/lagos/cds/tests/IC_5.1.41/tools/plot/.cdsplotinit
\o Loading /home/lagos/.cdsplotinit
\o plotServ 7.02, build a, 03.01, static
\o *Info* Hard copy done.

However, the very same code fails when I use Wavescan as the plotting
tool, resulting in the following output at the CIW when doing so:

\w *WARNING* **** /home/lagos/cds/tests/IC_5.1.41/tools/
plot/.cdsplotinit
\o Loading /home/lagos/cds/tests/IC_5.1.41/tools/plot/.cdsplotinit
\o Loading /home/lagos/.cdsplotinit
\t nil

I suspect the hardCopy() command is not meant to be used for printing
Wavescan plots... could anybody please tell what is the equivalent to
the "hardCopy()" command that should be used with Wavescan, or more
generaly, what is the right procedure to print Wavescan plots using
Skill?

Thanks for any help/ideas, as usual.

Cheers,

Jorge.

 

[Andrew Beckett]

spectrallypure wrote, on 03/04/09 14:38:

Hi all! I haven't been able to use the hardCopyOptions() / hardCopy()
functions to print Wavescan plots. The following code works fine when
the plots are drawn with the old AWD:

;...
my_window = newWindow()
;...some waveform plotting...
hardCopyOptions(?hcNumCopy 1 \
?hcPlotterName "epsfC" \
?hcOrientation 'landscape \
?hcPaperSize "11x17" \
?hcOutputFile "~/testplot.ps" )
hardCopy(my_window)
;...

Using this code the plot is generated correctly and I get the
following output at the CIW:

\w *WARNING* **** /home/lagos/cds/tests/IC_5.1.41/tools/
plot/.cdsplotinit
\o Loading /home/lagos/cds/tests/IC_5.1.41/tools/plot/.cdsplotinit
\o Loading /home/lagos/.cdsplotinit
\o plotServ 7.02, build a, 03.01, static
\o *Info* Hard copy done.

However, the very same code fails when I use Wavescan as the plotting
tool, resulting in the following output at the CIW when doing so:

\w *WARNING* **** /home/lagos/cds/tests/IC_5.1.41/tools/
plot/.cdsplotinit
\o Loading /home/lagos/cds/tests/IC_5.1.41/tools/plot/.cdsplotinit
\o Loading /home/lagos/.cdsplotinit
\t nil

I suspect the hardCopy() command is not meant to be used for printing
Wavescan plots... could anybody please tell what is the equivalent to
the "hardCopy()" command that should be used with Wavescan, or more
generaly, what is the right procedure to print Wavescan plots using
Skill?

Thanks for any help/ideas, as usual.

Cheers,

Jorge.

Jorge,

Did you check to see if the file actually got produced? hardCopy() is still the
way to do this, although the underlying print mechanism is completely different,
and hence it gives different messages. It does not use "plotServ", but natively
writes PostScript - it only uses the cdsplotinit stuff to find out the page size
and printer name/queue information.

I just tried an almost identical hardCopyOptions() to you, except I used a
slightly different printer name and paperSize, and ~/testplot.ps was produced.

BTW, if you specify the ?hcOutputFile as something with (say) a ".png" suffix,
it will output an image file, just as it would with the File->Save As Image in
the wavescan graph window.

Regards,

Andrew.

 

[spectrallypure]

Did you check to see if the file actually got produced?

I tried again using another paper size and it worked! I have always
had problems with the settings in my .cdsplotinit.... I changed it to
use the following entries and now it works:

my_epsc|my_epsc: \
:spool=cat > ~/cdsplot.ps: \
:query=ls -l ~/cdsplot.ps: \
:remove=rm -f ~/cdsplot.ps: \
:type=epsfC: \
:maximumPages#1: \
:resolution#1016: \
aperSize="A4_landscape" 11470 7030: \
aperSize="A4_portrait" 7990 10510:

Thanks so much for the help!

Cheers,

Jorge.