Re: [ROOT] Error in <TPostScript::Text>: too many characters ...

From: Rene Brun (Rene.Brun@cern.ch)
Date: Thu Apr 04 2002 - 21:26:06 MEST


Hi Vuko,

do:
   gStyle->SetOptTitle(0);
to suppress the drawing of the title.
You can also reset the histogram title, with, eg:
  htemp->SetTitle("");

Rene Brun


On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Vuko Brigljevic wrote:

> Hi ROOT friends,
> 
> I am getting the following error while saving an eps file
> with the line:
> 
>     gPad->SaveAs(epsFile);
> 
> Error in <TPostScript::Text>: too many characters in input string (505)
> Error in <TPostScript::Text>: too many characters in input string (505) 
> 
> As far as I can tell, the problem is that the string describing
> the tree selection used to fill this histogram is very long, actually
> gDirectory()->ls() shows it (just the relevant fraction printed out):
> 
> TROOT*          Rint    The ROOT of EVERYTHING
>  OBJ: TH2F      srhist  ((time>1009872000 && time<1015977600)*scaler1_16
> + (time>1009872000 && time<1015977600)*scaler1_17 + (time>1009872000 &
> & time<1015977600)*scaler1_18 + (time>1009872000 &&
> time<1015977600)*scaler1_19 + (time>1015977600 &&
> time<1016726400)*scaler1_16 + (time>10159
> 77600 && time<1016726400)*scaler1_17 + (time>1015977600 &&
> time<1016726400)*scaler1_18 + (time>1015977600 &&
> time<1016726400)*scaler1_19 + (tim
> e>1016726400 && time<1262332800)*scaler1_16 + (time>1016726400 &&
> time<1262332800)*scaler1_17 + (time>1016726400 &&
> time<1262332800)*scaler1_18
>  + (time>1016726400 && time<1262332800)*scaler1_19):time 
> {time>1015340968 && time<1017932968 && ( (time>1009872000 &&
> time<1016726400) ) } : 0
> 
> and it cannot print it in the eps file. In fact the plot is fine,
> but that text box is empty.
> 
> Should I worry about it? Actually, I'd like anyway to get rid of that
> box in the plot where the tree selection criteria are written. Is there
> an option to tell root not to draw it?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Vuko
> 
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