Re: [Visualpython-users] Re:How to print ?

[Bruce S. <ba...@an...>]

--On Friday, March 23, 2001 09:13 +0100 Ihor Rokach <ro...@tu...> 
wrote:

> Bruce Sherwood wrote:
>> For printing graphs, the best thing would probably be to bring in another
>> graphing or drawing package that supports high-quality postscript output,
>> and write code to convert a visual.graph into that package's conception
>> of
> a
>> graph.
>
> Simply use Dislin
>
> http://www.linmpi.mpg.de/dislin
>
> Visual should not be 'the best tool for everything'.

It was Dave Scherer who said this, not me.

I went and looked at Dislin, and it wasn't obvious to me how this would 
address the problem. For starters, it isn't available for the Macintosh, 
and only certain versions are freeware. Is Dislin intended to display on 
the screen or to a printer (or both)?

I agree with the notion that Visual doesn't have to do everything, but 
being able to print (at high resolution) the graphs that are already being 
produced in VPython certainly seems a desirable feature.

Ihor, can you explain what role (if any?) Dislin could play in making it 
possible to print a  graph produced by visual.graph?

Bruce Sherwood