Re: problems with NCL ps file

OK, that actually worked -- cool. (Note that Illustrator now says
"Parsing EPS Format". I'm not convinced it said that at all before.)
Is it fair to say that this points to NCL instead of Illustrator? I
will definitely make a note to try this if/when I run into this again in
future. Hopefully though, it just goes away with a (NCL) fix.

Thanks Adam -- sometimes "whims" pay off!

dave

Adam Phillips said the following on 6/12/09 4:03 PM:
> Hi David,
> On a whim, I tried passing the .ps file thru ps2ps, and the result was
> the same. However, along the same lines,
> and after talking to a colleague about the issue, I passed the .ps
> file thru convert:
> convert plot_avg_57_79_020_new.ps test.ps
> and I was able to read it into Illustrator.
> Give it a shot..
> Adam
>
> David B. Reusch wrote:
>> Thanks for the debugging Adam. Unfortunately, as the attached image
>> shows, RasterFill (left) and AreaFill (right) produce rather
>> different results for these data (i.e., on the left, concave
>> boundary). I'm pretty sure this is how I ended up with RasterFill.
>>
>> Back when I was working on this stuff daily, I was generating dozens
>> and dozens of paneled figures each with 20 to 30 plots just like this
>> -- and I *must* have loaded at least some of them into Illustrator
>> w/o any problems. Unfortunately (again), at some point I also added
>> a step to convert the PS files to PNG files so I don't have any of
>> those PS files handy. If necessary, I could probably redo one w/o
>> the PS->PNG step and see if that actually works.
>>
>> For now, though, I'd prefer to see if anyone else has any additional
>> ideas.
>>
>> Also, I prefer to keep the files as PS because I usually end up doing
>> a bunch of tweaking in Illustrator that can't be done in PNG.
>>
>> Thanks again,
>> Dave
>>
>> Adam Phillips said the following on 6/12/09 2:06 PM:
>>> Hi David,
>>> I ran your code, and confirmed that I can't read it into Illustrator
>>> either. I didn't see anything peculiar in your script, so I started
>>> commenting out lines of code, running the script, and tried opening
>>> it up in Illustrator. The line that is causing it not to read into
>>> Illustrator is res_at_cnFillMode = "RasterFill". If I comment that line
>>> out all is well. I have no idea why a raster filled NCL image can't
>>> be imported into Illustrator.
>>>
>>> A solution would be to use the convert command (/Image Magik) to
>>> convert the .ps/.eps file into a high resolution .png or .gif file,
>>> and import that into Illustrator. Or you can use AreaFiIl instead of
>>> RasterFill. Perhaps others will have an answer as to why a
>>> raster-filled NCL image can't be read into Illustrator.
>>> Adam
>>>
>>>
>>> David B. Reusch wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I am having problems reading a NCL-generated PS file into
>>>> Illustrator and I have not been able to isolate it to either NCL or
>>>> Illustrator. In all cases, when opening in Illustrator, I get the
>>>> "The operation cannot complete because of an unknown error"
>>>> message. Depending on which version/platform of Illustrator (I've
>>>> tried CS2, CS3, CS4 on PPC Mac 10.4, WinXP, Intel Mac 10.5,
>>>> respectively), some of the image is still displayed. The file
>>>> prints and can be opened/viewed in gv, Preview and ImageMagick. It
>>>> even opens in Photoshop, though I'm not sure that's a fair test
>>>> since it's being rasterized.
>>>>
>>>> This problem actually started in Dec 2007 and languished on my desk
>>>> until this week. Because of that I've been able to test it out on
>>>> LOTS of NCL releases, all on Mac 10.4.x: 4.2.0.a033 and a034,
>>>> 4.3.0, 4.3.1, 5.0.0 and 5.1.0. Unfortunately, the NCL release
>>>> doesn't seem to matter since Illustrator has the same problem
>>>> regardless (though only the 5.1.0 PS file has been tested across
>>>> multiple Illustrator versions).
>>>>
>>>> I've attached a file with my script, input data and a sample PS
>>>> file. To run the script (plot_avg_map_new.ncl), be sure to first
>>>> set environment variable INFILE to "avg_57_79_020" (e.g., setenv
>>>> INFILE avg_57_79_020, in csh/tcsh). This points the script to the
>>>> text input file. The script will produce a PS file
>>>> plot_avg_57_79_020_new.ps.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks!
>>>> Dave
>>>>
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