=====IDL to Postscript and Powerpoint=====

Carl Heiles and Tim Robishaw have put together a guide: [[http://astro.berkeley.edu/~heiles/handouts/makeps.ps|makeps.ps]]

====Another Postscript package====
There are a lot of things you should do to create a journal-readable encapsulated postscript file other than just call ps_open.  The following routine uses postscript fonts, makes the axes thick, makes the character size large, and makes your plotting symbols or lines thick so that you can see them on a printout or for a journal.  Use this instead of ps_open and ps_close.  These functions are simply wrappers around those functions (they default to color -- the keyword nocolor makes b/w only).  If you want to send other keywords, the wrappers will pass them along.
  

  * {{idl:ps_open.pro.txt|ps_open.pro}}
  * {{idl:ps_close.pro.txt|ps_close.pro}}
  * {{:openpps.pro.txt|openpps.pro}}
  * {{:closepps.pro.txt|closepps.pro}}