RE: saving a canvas as postscript or pdf

Hello,

Do you have some example macro showing the kind of problem you encounter ? I have tried to generated pdf and ps files with the last root version, and for me the results are good when I visualize them using "gv". I tried also xpdf on the pdf file and it is fine too. Have you tried to print them ? which ROOT version are you using ?

Cheers, Olivier

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-roottalk_at_root.cern.ch [mailto:owner-roottalk_at_root.cern.ch] On Behalf Of Roger Mason
Sent: Saturday, December 13, 2008 2:48 PM To: roottalk_at_lxbuild091.cern.ch
Subject: [ROOT] saving a canvas as postscript or pdf

Hello,

I would like to make high quality pdf or postscript copies of a number of TCanvases. I can save in either of these formats but when viewed in xpdf the line thickness of histograms is much greater than when the canvas is viewed from within root. I have tried saving as eps and converting to pdf using epstopdf and pstoedit, but the generated pdf images are not as good as the canvas when opened in root. The pdf images will be going into a pdf document made using ConTeXt and will look poor alongside the high-quality typsetting from the TeX engine.

I realise this may have nothing to do with root but if anyone has experience in generating good ps/pdf for TeX perhaps they would share a few pointers.

Thanks,
Roger

ROOT 5.20/00 (trunk_at_24524, Sep 30 2008, 15:32:00 on linux) Received on Mon Dec 15 2008 - 11:37:56 CET