Re: characters in ps

["r.bauer" <r.bauer(at)fz-juelich.de>]

Otto Jusko wrote:
> 
> It is even easier than that:
> 
> If you want to display an "Ä", "Ö", "Ü", or "ß", which are German Umlaute, than you may just
> enable the /ISOLATIN switch of your PS-device and you can print strings including them, like
> "Hofbräuhaus".
> 
> have fun !

I am sorry, this don't work.

The "ä" is missing in both. 

IDL Help:

ISOLATIN1

(PS)

Set this keyword to use Adobe ISO Latin 1 font encoding with any font
that supports such coding. Use of this keyword allows access to many
commonly-used foreign characters.


Reimar 


pro test2
 SET_PLOT, 'PS'

 DEVICE, SET_FONT = "Times-Roman"

x=findgen(100)
y=sin(x)

 DEVICE, FILE='test_out.eps' ,$
      /ENCAPSUL, /color,/isolatin1
      !P.FONT = 0
     plot, x, y, xtitle = 'Funny >ä< Character doesn''t work'
     xyouts,0.5,0.5,'Hofbräuhaus',/norm
 DEVICE, /CLOSE

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