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Re: Re: Point[] shapes at different sizes

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• Subject: [mg84923] Re: [mg84903] Re: Point[] shapes at different sizes
• From: Curtis Osterhoudt <cfo at lanl.gov>
• Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2008 06:06:27 -0500 (EST)
• Organization: LANL
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On Friday 18 January 2008 03:52:58 Jens-Peer Kuska wrote:
> Hi,
>
  Hi, all,

    The "quick" solution for me is to use the ImageSize option in Graphics, to 
set the displayed graphics to a larger size, and THEN export to a vector 
format. Then only the very smallest (or none, if ImageSize is large enough) 
points still show up as squares. 


> that depend on the resolution of your printer.
> The printer will have laser diodes with square shape
> to represent a pixel. If your pixel is smaller than the
> size of the laser diode it can't be circular or you take
> some tools and modify the shape in the printer.
>
> Regards
>    Jens
>
> Szabolcs Horv=E1t wrote:
> > The shape of Point objects is usually circular, but below a certain siz=
>
> e
>
> > they are displayed as squares.  This is useful for screen display, but
> > not always desirable when exporting to vector formats.  Is there a way
> > to set the shape of Points of all sizes to be circular?
> >
> > Here is an example that produces square points:
> >
> > gr = Graphics@Table[{PointSize[x/1000], Point[{x, 0}]}, {x, 1, 10}]
> > Export["gr.eps", gr]
> >
> > Szabolcs



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  • Re: Point[] shapes at different sizes
    • From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska@informatik.uni-leipzig.de>