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Thanks, that's interesting, and interesting that the PostScript doesn't do so badly on this front (since it's doing the same clipping). I'm not quite sure what to do about this. I mean I could do the clipping in our code but that rather defeats the purpose of a nice language like PS and PDF! Wayne On Wed, 11 Feb 2009, Patrick van der Wel wrote: > Wayne, > > The problem (from what I've seen) is not that it looks bad. Indeed the > files include clipping masks that clip off the 'excess' parts of the > spectra and the output looks fine as a result. > > However, if you start to try and edit such a file in an editor like > Adobe Illustrator, then all those 'hidden' lines, peaks, etc etc can be > come quite annoying since they extend off the page, overlap with other > parts of your figure or data, etc. This means that you often have to try > to delete them, which makes for more work. Also, when stuff is > overlapped like that it can be harder to select the parts that you want. > Furthermore, if you (accidentally or on purpose) end up deleting one or > more of the clipping masks you can be in real trouble (with stuff > suddenly appearing all over the place). > > All in all, these considerations resulted in me not using the PDF format > in such cases and using the postscript instead. > > Patrick > > On 2/11/09 2:31 PM, Wayne Boucher wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Does it look ok in another previewer? I don't have Inkscape, I'll try to > > download tomorrow at work (the OSX download is 49 Mb, which is going to > > push my download capability at home). And can you send me the pdf? I > > just tried creating a file with contours that could go off the screen and > > the output looked ok in my previewer. > > > > I should say that the program draws stuff outside of the view window but > > it is supposed to be clipped. And the pdf I checked does have clipping > > commands in it. (Of course they could be wrong somehow!) > > > > Wayne > > > > On Wed, 11 Feb 2009, Mark Pfuhl wrote: > > > > > >> To generate figures of NMR spectra for publication I prefer using > >> vectorgraphics (e.g. inkscape). I recently noticed a bizarre thing about a > >> spectrum produced by analysis (happens in both 1 and 2): The plot contained > >> a small part of the spectrum but when I looked at it in inkscape large > >> chunks of the spectrum outside appeared as well (see figure). This means one > >> has to remove all the contours outside by hand which is rather tedious. In > >> addition, it makes files unnecessarily large. Is there a chance to fix that? > >> thanks, > >> mark > >> > >> > >> > > > > >