Can you make publication quality
images in a journal's desired format?
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9 - yes 13 - Yes 14 - CMYK PS files capability missing with IDL 19 - Yes, though dmimg2jpg should produce higher quality postscript (and, ideally, encapsulated postscript). 20 - Only using wip 21 - Mostly. I haven't yet found a tool I'm completely happy with for creating 1-D CMYK plots. DS9's output often needs to be heavily edited in order to get axes & contours to come out right, and in order to add a color scale bar when necessary. 22 - Yes 23 - Yes. 24 - yes. 25 - Not quite - dmimg2jpg lacks acceptable axis labeling. Should also output postscript in CMYK (not just RGB). Chips is good, back lacks a broad range of symbols. 27 - I don't do imaging. 28 - Yes. 30 - Yes 31 - Yes - I love ds9 for this purpose!!! 32 - yes 35 - I'm not an imaging person. 37 - Eventually. Not with Ciao. 38 - yes, but not with CIAO tools 39 - yes 43 - yes. (except for the silly cmyk business) I'm not sure what "imaging" entails; I do mostly line/scatter plots (spectra). Sometimes I need 2D intensity images. Between IDL and isis/pgplot, I can get what I need. 44 - There's a bit of a distinction between what I need for analysis, and what I want for publication. In that sense, something like CHIPS is a bit of a mushy middle ground. Yes, the XSPEC plotting is kind of ugly, but it's good enough to understand and think about. When it comes time for the final "publication product", I then usually go to IDL. I usually don't see the need for the middle ground of CHIPS. 47 - Not in CIAO. I use IDL for this task. 49 - Yes. IDL works best for that. 52 - images with ds9, plots with IDL. 53 - With lots of effort, yes. Would like much better handle on resolution. 58 - Yes. 59 - ds9 can create great images! but i cannot create appropriate 2d contours with chips 60 - yes. 62 - Yes - using ds9. 63 - Depends- dmimg2jpg certainly can produce good images, and then I use xv or gimp to finish them up. As for plotting, I prefer IDL to make the final thing. 64 - YES 65 - yes 67 - It is still difficult to provide color drawings for ApJ in a format they can use readily. The cmyk output of ds9 was insufficient last time I tried. 70 - Yes. I often use "wip" http://bima.astro.umd.edu/wip/manual/wip.html and occasionaly IDL 71 - Need more examples 72 - yes 75 - using idl i can; ds9 is not capable of producing really camera ready publication quality images 77 - yes, it is not a problem to make publication quality images with IDL 80 - no journal entries as of yet, but image specifications are always modifiable, though it may require a 3rd party app 81 - only just 82 - HAHAHAHA. NO. Journals always want four color images, while most programs only allow three color output. 83 - no 89 - yes, but I think contour plots with ds9 should be improved 90 - I haven't tried that yet, and probably won't need to. (I'm doing mostly analysis of point sources.) 100 - is CMYK postscript supported yet? 101 - no 103 - yes, in IDL. 105 - Yes. 106 - yes, but it can be very fiddly 108 - Yes, in IDL 111 - ds9 is nice but could be improved 112 - Yes. ds9 is excellent. 113 - never tried with CIAO, I use IDL because it provides the best flexibility 118 - yes 120 - yes 121 - Yes 124 - Not for color figures. There are few tools available for manipulating CMYK images and generating CMYK postscript. 125 - yes
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