Re: [Plplot-general] Questions on line thickness and multiple output files

[R C <re...@ya...>]

--- On Mon, 7/14/08, Hezekiah M. Carty <hc...@at...> wrote:

> From: Hezekiah M. Carty <hc...@at...>
> Subject: Re: [Plplot-general] Questions on line thickness and multiple output files
> To: re...@ya...
> Cc: plp...@li...
> Date: Monday, July 14, 2008, 4:37 PM
> On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 4:17 PM, R C <re...@ya...>
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I checked the user manual and the mailing list but was
> unable to find the answers to a couple of questions.
> >  Is there an option to change the line thickness for
> plline and pljoin?
> 
> The function plwid should do what you want:
> 
> plwid(width);
> 
> where width is an integer.
> 
> See [1] below for a more detailed description of its use.
> 
> > Also, I have been able to get multiple figures using
> the pdf and postscript drivers, and I can post-process
> > these files to save each figure to a separate file,
> but is there a way in PLPLOT to write each figure to a
> separate output file?
> 
> I usually use plend between plots and simply start the
> whole plotting
> process over (plsdev ... plsfnam ... plinit ...) for each
> figure.
> Another option is to use family files, described in [2].  I
> have not
> used this method very much, but I think if you call:
> 
> plsfam(1, 0, 1);
> plsfnam("figure-%n.ps");
> 
> before plinit then each time you start a new page a new
> file should be
> created.  The first page would be written to
> "figure-0.ps", the second
> to "figure-1.ps" and so on.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> Hez
> 
> [1] -
> http://plplot.sourceforge.net/docbook-manual/plplot-html-5.9.0/plwid.html
> [2] -
> http://plplot.sourceforge.net/docbook-manual/plplot-html-5.9.0/output-devices.html#familying
> 
> -- 
> Hezekiah M. Carty
> Graduate Research Assistant
> University of Maryland
> Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science

Hi,
 These do just what I was looking for. Thanks for your help.

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