{"id":48995,"date":"2016-03-16T15:09:28","date_gmt":"2016-03-16T15:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ahay.org\/blog\/?p=48995"},"modified":"2016-03-16T15:09:28","modified_gmt":"2016-03-16T15:09:28","slug":"vplot-figures-and-ms-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ahay.org\/blog\/2016\/03\/16\/vplot-figures-and-ms-word\/","title":{"rendered":"Vplot figures and MS Word"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Dellinger, the author of Vplot, suggests adjusting parameters for raster figures when including them in Word documents. He writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Wow, working on my SEG abstract I had a helluva time getting my vplot raster figures to look decent in word. Then I realized\u2026 wait a minute, it\u2019s doing just the bad things plotters back in the 80\u2019s were doing. I fiddled a little with pixc and greyc, and voila! Beautiful raster figures.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ahay.org\/wiki\/Graphics_development_with_vplot\">Vplot documentation<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong>pixc<\/strong> is used only when dithering is being performed, and also should only be used for hardcopy devices. It alters the grey scale to correct for pixel overlap on the device, which (if uncorrected) causes grey raster images to come out much darker on paper than on graphics displays.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>greyc<\/strong> is used only when dithering is being performed, and really should only be used for hardcopy devices. It alters the grey scale so that grey rasters come out on paper with the same nonlinear appearance that is perceived on display devices.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The default values are <strong>pixc=1 greyc=1<\/strong>. The values used by Joe in his Word document were <strong>pixc=1.15 greyc=1.25<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>To convert Vplot plots to other forms of graphics, you can use <a href=\"\/blog\/2009\/06\/06\/pens\/\">vpconvert<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>See also:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/blog\/2012\/01\/19\/tkvpconvert\/\">tkvpconvert<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/blog\/2015\/03\/24\/wxpython\/\">wxvpconvert<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Dellinger, the author of Vplot, suggests adjusting parameters for raster figures when including them in Word documents. He writes: Wow, working on my SEG abstract I had a helluva time getting my vplot raster figures to look decent in word. Then I realized\u2026 wait a minute, it\u2019s doing just the bad things plotters back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_import_markdown_pro_load_document_selector":0,"_import_markdown_pro_submit_text_textarea":"","activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-systems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahay.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahay.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahay.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahay.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahay.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48995"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ahay.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49023,"href":"https:\/\/ahay.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48995\/revisions\/49023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahay.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahay.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahay.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}