Computing Information UTIG Graphics Solutions - Answers To Frequently Asked Questions This list of answers is intended to address frequently-asked-questions regarding problems with graphics software at UTIG. If your question is not answered here, please email gwen@ig.utexas.edu. Contributions to this FAQ are welcome. This FAQ list last updated September 1998. CONTENTS 1.0 Graphics software 1.1 What graphics software programs are available? 2.0 Graphics Solutions: Software-specific 2.1 Canvas 2.2 Adobe Illustrator 2.3 IslandDraw 2.4 Other 3.0 Miscellaneous 3.1 How can I embellish a PostScript file? 3.2 What are the dimensions for ANSI A (or ARCH A, etc.) paper? 4.0 Plotting (see general computing FAQ) 4.1 What devices are available for outputting color images? 4.2 How do I make a large poster or poster title? 4.3 How do I make multiple plots? 4.4 How do I make a color overhead? 5.0 Digitizing (see general computing FAQ) 5.1 Should I use the scanner or the digitizer? 5.2 How do I digitize maps, seismic horizons, etc? 1.0 Graphics software 1.1 What graphics software programs are available? Macintosh: Canvas, Adobe Illustrator PC: Adobe Illustrator, CorelDraw Sun: IslandDraw 2.0 Graphics Solutions: Software-specific 2.1 Canvas   2.2 Adobe Illustrator   2.3 IslandDraw Q. Part of my image disappears when I scale it or rotate it. A. Try ungrouping it to the point level. Q. When I print a landscape, page-sized image, I only get part of it. A. Group the entire image and rotate it so that it is portrait. Under 'Options' on the menu bar, select 'Setup,' set it to 'Portrait' and then print. Q. Part of my image disappears when I scale it or rotate it. A. Kevin Johnson wrote a script to deal with this for GMT produced postscript files. If your file is called figure.ps, then type 'unclip figure.ps > figure_new.ps'. Then load figure_new.ps into Island Draw - it won't have rotation problems. 2.4 Other   3.0 Miscellaneous 3.1 How can I embellish a PostScript file? Macintosh: Canvas5.0 and Adobe Illustrator6 will open a PS file. Also, EPStoPICT will convert a PS file to a PICT file that Canvas3.5 can open. PC: Canvas and CorelDraw will open a PS file. Sun: IslandDraw will open a PS file. 3.2 What are the dimensions for ANSI A (or ARCH A, etc.) paper? Paper Size in inches Width x Height Tabloid Extra 12 x 18 ANSI A 8.5 x 11 ANSI B 11 x 17 ANSI C 17 x 22 ANSI D 22 x 34 ANSI E 34 x 44 ANSI F 28 x 40 ISO A0 33.1 x 46.8 ISO A1 23.4 x 33.1 ISO A2 16.5 x 23.4 ISO A3 11.7 x 16.5 ISO A4 8.3 x 11.7 ARCH A 9 X 12 ARCH B 12 X 18 ARCH C 18 X 24 ARCH D 24 X 36 ARCH E 36 X 48