Re: problems with NCL ps file

So I tried reading in some of my raster fill images, and they worked,
w/o using the convert workaround. I did get the parsing EPS image
message though. So it is not universal, some raster fill images read in,
others do not. Strange. Perhaps its a combination of resources, or the
data grid?

I wouldn't necessarily say that it's a NCL issue, but ???

David B. Reusch wrote:
> 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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