[ferret_users] adobe illustrator 101

[Rob Scott <rscott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Nihao Gao

I'll tell you the non-obvious stuff to get you started, then you can use
the help function to figure out the rest:

open your ps file in adobe illustrator (use "open" from
"file" menu obviously)
click on the figure, everything should become selected
click on "clipping mask" from the "object" menu, and
click on "release " if available (i.e. "release" is
black, not light grey)

similarly, click on "compound path" from the "object"
menu, and click on "release" if available.

now click on "crop marks" from the "object" menu, and
click on "release" if available.

Then "ungroup" also from the "object" menu.

Now it should be clear with a little reading. E.g. click
"stroke" from the "window" menu, and you can change
the thickness of lines till your heart is content, add text, little
arrow, label contours, shi ma shi ma....

Cheers,
Rob


At 07:07 PM 6/30/2005, you wrote:

Hi, Rob,
 
Thanks for your quick response.
 
I have installed Adobe Illustrator. But i have no idea how to use it. Would you like to give me some detailed hints?
 
Best wishes,
Gao
 

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Hi Gao

So many problem little problems like changing line thickness are trivial in Adobe Illustrator. Why not just make your plot in ferret, then read it into Adobe Illustrator (if you have this software) and modify it as you see fit?

Regarding histogram plot: (These are actually more generally called bar charts or bar graphs, although your confusion is very understandable because the more narrowly defined histograms (like a discrete version of probability density) are almost always drawn as bar charts.)

Ferret v5.6 has a few go files, bar_chart1, bar_chart2, and bar_chart3.

Best wishes,
Rob





At 07:43 AM 6/30/2005, Gao Rongzhen wrote:

Hi, all
 
Here i have two questions.
One is about command Fprint. I looked through the email archives, but still have no idea to change thin lines in PS files to thicker ones. When i use Fprint i am informed no command. I wonder know how to use Fprint and under what conditions to use it? The ferret version i'm using is 5.53, on windows 98.
Are there any other ways to get thick lines output besides the above method?
 
The other one is wether ferret can get the following histogram plot, and how? I want to plot histogram instead of line.
 
<?xml:namespace prefix = v ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" />
 
 
Thanks
Gao Rongzhen

Rob Scott
Research Associate
Institute for Geophysics
University of Texas at Austin
4412 Spicewood Springs Rd.
Building 600
Austin, TX
78759

Office: +1-512-471-0375

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Rob Scott
Research Associate
Institute for Geophysics
University of Texas at Austin
4412 Spicewood Springs Rd.
Building 600
Austin, TX
78759

Office: +1-512-471-0375