Re: flushing out buffer of output PS file, OLDPS vs PS

When you want the newer version of NCL to write the output to file, call
delete(wks), where wks is the name of the workstation associated with your
graphic. This is necessary regardless of the image type.

Kyle
On Jul 23, 2014 7:44 AM, "Arindam Chakraborty" <arch13@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> I'm trying to convert a PS file generated within my code to EPS, from
> within the NCL function. This is possible when I use OLDPS but not (New)
> PS. A simple test says that with NewPS, the file is not written (populated
> with data) until the NCL code exists. This is not true for OLDPS
> workstation. In both cases, the PS file is of correct size/format once NCL
> exists. Possibly the PS file is not FLUSHed until NCL exists! I'm not very
> sure if this was discussed earlier. Below is the test code.
>
> begin
> x=ispan(0,360,1)*1d0
> y=sin(x*3.14/180)
>
> wks = gsn_open_wks("oldps","test");
> ; wks = gsn_open_wks("ps","test");
> plt=gsn_csm_xy(wks,x,y,False)
> system("ls -l test.ps") ; file size 0 for PS and non-zero for OLDPS
> ; system("ps2eps test.ps") ; does not work for "PS" workstation
> end
>
> I'm using Ubuntu. NCL 6.2.0.
>
> regards,
> --
> *Arindam Chakraborty*
> CAOS, IISc, Bangalore-12
>
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Received on Wed Jul 23 12:34:39 2014