Hi all,

A little off-topic, but regarding PDF plugins, if the Acrobat Reader
plugin isn't behaving well for you, I've had good experiences with the
PDF plugin at http://www.schubert-it.com/pluginpdf/ - works well with
Safari and it's free for academic/non-profit users.  One nice thing
about it is that it has a button to pass the file off to an external
viewer (which you can choose from a drop-down list) if you decide you
don't want to read the file in your browser.

Eric

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On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 07:41 -0400, Paul Ray wrote:
>
> On Apr 22, 2005, at 7:25 AM, Edward Edmondson wrote:
>
> > Be warned that it's inadvisable to let it install the webbrowser
> > plugin.
> > It has a habit of getting you banned for a week from some of the
> > astro-ph mirrors.
>
> I do use the plugin, because it is the first time I've been able to
> view PDF inline in Safari rather than just downloading the file, and
> opening it in a separate Preview window.  I'll uninstall it before
> Tiger because that capability will be built in to Safari.  So far, I
> haven't noticed any bad behavior by the plugin.  What does it do,
> download a file a million times or something?
>


Well, on the odd occasion I've been banned from arxiv it's said that it
was for using a PDF plugin, although the message given talked about
disabling it in Netscape rather than Safari so I suspect they detect it
and assume it is nasty when in fact it isn't (I've certainly not noticed
any bad behaviour from it myself) - anything that still talks about
Netscape rather than Mozilla or Firefox nowadays seems a little dated to
me.

It rarely affects me however because my local mirror seems not to mind -
it's only caught me out when I've followed links that have taken me to
the main US mirror.

--
Edd

On Apr 22, 2005, at 7:25 AM, Edward Edmondson wrote:

> Be warned that it's inadvisable to let it install the webbrowser
> plugin.
> It has a habit of getting you banned for a week from some of the
> astro-ph mirrors.

I do use the plugin, because it is the first time I've been able to
view PDF inline in Safari rather than just downloading the file, and
opening it in a separate Preview window.  I'll uninstall it before
Tiger because that capability will be built in to Safari.  So far, I
haven't noticed any bad behavior by the plugin.  What does it do,
download a file a million times or something?

Cheers,

-- Paul

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On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 07:13 -0400, Paul Ray wrote:
>
> On Apr 22, 2005, at 4:36 AM, Marshall Perrin wrote:
>
> > I don't know about you all, but *my* Mac's hard drive is bulging
> with
> > more files than I can easily keep track of - and so I'm very much
> > looking forward to Tiger's Spotlight search feature.
>
> I completely agree.  Spotlight is the main reason I'm dying to
> install
> Tiger.  I have hundreds of PDF preprints from ADS and astro-ph that I
> often end up downloading over and over because I can't find them when
> I
> need them.  Full text search of all my PDF files will be great!
>

As a stopgap measure until your copy of Tiger arrives you could use
Acrobat Reader. It has the ability to search the contents of a folder of
PDF files, albeit slowly (it'll read and scan each in turn rather than
hold a fast database of the contents as Spotlight does).

Be warned that it's inadvisable to let it install the webbrowser plugin.
It has a habit of getting you banned for a week from some of the
astro-ph mirrors.

--
Edd

Marshall,

On 2005 Apr 22 , at 09.36, Marshall Perrin wrote:

A propos a Spotlight FITS plugin

> I'm game to try to write such a thing myself, but I figured I'd post
> first and see if anyone else is interested. The code will be open
> source
> of course, probably BSD licensed. If you're interested in writing or
> testing code or even just discussing how this might work, send me a
> note!

I've also wondered about such a thing.  Or rather we have, `we' here
being Starlink <www.starlink.ac.uk>, and our first thought being to
support the NDF file format we use.

It'd be nice to make the two things compatible, though, and compatible
with any other similar formats like HDF, possibly to the extent of
sharing code or being jointly maintained.  Though as you note the
plugins do seem to be sufficiently simple that this might be neither
necessary nor desirable.

At a design level, however, it might be both interesting and useful to
think carefully about the set of metadata which is extracted from the
files, as that is certainly a (supra-code) level at which compatibility
is easy to lose, and matters.

All the best,

Norman

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On Apr 22, 2005, at 4:36 AM, Marshall Perrin wrote:

> I don't know about you all, but *my* Mac's hard drive is bulging with
> more files than I can easily keep track of - and so I'm very much
> looking forward to Tiger's Spotlight search feature.

I completely agree.  Spotlight is the main reason I'm dying to install
Tiger.  I have hundreds of PDF preprints from ADS and astro-ph that I
often end up downloading over and over because I can't find them when I
need them.  Full text search of all my PDF files will be great!

I'm interested in the FITS metadata importer as well.  It will be
important to select the right keywords to import and to make it as
lightweight and fast as possible.  Probably it shouldn't link to the
full CFITSIO library, but just do a quick text scan of the primary
image keywords at the start of the file.  I'd like to make sure it gets
useful info from X-ray data (RXTE, Chandra, etc) as well as
ground-based imaging data, and radio.

I've only done a little bit of Cocoa coding, but I'm happy to help if I
can, and I'd love to test it.

Cheers,

-- Paul

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yo Marshall, put my name down as a helper. I would definitely find it
useful to have fits capabilities in Spotlight!

jeff

On 22-Apr-05, at 1:36 AM, Marshall Perrin wrote:

>
>
> I don't know about you all, but *my* Mac's hard drive is bulging with
> more files than I can easily keep track of - and so I'm very much
> looking forward to Tiger's Spotlight search feature.
>
> (see http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/spotlight/ if you've missed
> the hype thus far. :-)
>
>
> Spotlight will support plug-ins to allow automatic indexing of
> arbitrary
> file types. This just cries out to me "add support for FITS headers!"
> I'd love to be able to instantly search my hard drive and find all the
> FITS files with a given target, or taken with a given instrument
> configuration - to say nothing of just exposing various header keywords
> like exposure or filter in the Finder for easy perusal.  (No more
> glancing at a directory full of n0001.fits through n2985.fits and
> wondering just which files I need right now and where that hand-written
> NIRC2 log sheet went, anyway...) OK, I'll admit I'm not entirely sure
> yet how useful this will really be in practice, but it seems too cool
> not to try.
>
> I'm game to try to write such a thing myself, but I figured I'd post
> first and see if anyone else is interested. The code will be open
> source
> of course, probably BSD licensed. If you're interested in writing or
> testing code or even just discussing how this might work, send me a
> note!
>
> Based on the sample code snippet available at
> http://developer.apple.com/macosx/tiger/spotlight.html ,
> it looks very straightforward to write this. The hardest part is going
> to be deciding which keywords to index and which not to. It's not clear
> yet to me how mutable the list of Spotlight-indexed metadata parameters
> is - presumably more will be clear in a week when the OS arrives and
> with it the new version of Developer Tools.
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Professional Astronomy Software for OSX:
> http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/~nridge/osxastro/
>
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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I don't know about you all, but *my* Mac's hard drive is bulging with
more files than I can easily keep track of - and so I'm very much
looking forward to Tiger's Spotlight search feature.

(see http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/spotlight/ if you've missed
the hype thus far. :-)


Spotlight will support plug-ins to allow automatic indexing of arbitrary
file types. This just cries out to me "add support for FITS headers!"
I'd love to be able to instantly search my hard drive and find all the
FITS files with a given target, or taken with a given instrument
configuration - to say nothing of just exposing various header keywords
like exposure or filter in the Finder for easy perusal.  (No more
glancing at a directory full of n0001.fits through n2985.fits and
wondering just which files I need right now and where that hand-written
NIRC2 log sheet went, anyway...) OK, I'll admit I'm not entirely sure
yet how useful this will really be in practice, but it seems too cool
not to try.

I'm game to try to write such a thing myself, but I figured I'd post
first and see if anyone else is interested. The code will be open source
of course, probably BSD licensed. If you're interested in writing or
testing code or even just discussing how this might work, send me a
note!

Based on the sample code snippet available at
http://developer.apple.com/macosx/tiger/spotlight.html ,
it looks very straightforward to write this. The hardest part is going
to be deciding which keywords to index and which not to. It's not clear
yet to me how mutable the list of Spotlight-indexed metadata parameters
is - presumably more will be clear in a week when the OS arrives and
with it the new version of Developer Tools.

Dear all,

With the release of Tiger next Friday, I'm sure there will be a few
bugs, problems or compatibility issues with the current suite of
astronomy applications that I have listed at the website
(http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/~nridge/osxastro).

Obviously I won't have time to test everything myself, and a lot of the
applications are not ones that I use. So, in order to keep the website
up-to-date I need your help - please report in your experiences with
any of the listed applications (either good or bad). I suggest you send
an email to me (unless the issue is a showstopper or you need input on
how to address the problem) rather than post to the mailing list, in
order to avoid spamming everyone.

   My plan is to initially have a link to a separate page listing
experiences with Tiger, then eventually replace the current page as
Tiger becomes the more common OS X version.

thanks,

naomi.

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I have never heard of the import over drag image problem, but the animations are
problems.

If you want to know your presentation will work for sure, when done choose
export and
export as tiff. This will put all slides in another folder which you can then
use these to
make a final presentation.

The reason I recommend this is it simplifies the presentation from the computers
side (one
image per slide). This eliminates any possible font problems or other vector
graphics
issues that might arise.

I also advise all the PIs I work for to burn the presentation to a CD and run it
from the CD
to be sure it works before you go. I have seen powerpoint presentations error
out for no
reason, "Part of the file is missing" and none of the content is ever
recoverable when this
happens. Since the CD is burned it can't become corrupt in that manner.

I hope that info helps.

Duane
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/macastronomer/

--- In osxastro@yahoogroups.com, Naomi Ridge <nridge@c...> wrote:
>
> If anyone is going to the AAS, make sure there are no animated slides*
> in your Powerpoint files - when transferring them onto a Windows PC
> (which is what will be provided) they won't work - you'll just get a
> "Missing Plug-in"  error. I've also been told that a similar problem
> occurs if you include an image by dragging it from the desktop rather
> than using "Insert Picture" or copy and paste it from another
> application.
>
> If anyone knows an alternative solution to this please chip in - I have
> to remake my two talks tomorrow...
>
> naomi.
>
> * e.g. text or images appearing/disappearing, not mpeg movies.

Hello,

I would like to announce the availability of the second beta release
for the Starlink Software Collection on OS X. Installation
instructions and a download link can be found at
http://www.jach.hawaii.edu/~bradc/starlink/install.html. Information
about the Starlink Project can be found at http://www.starlink.ac.uk.

This release does not offer much in the way of new functionality over
the first release, but it uses shared libraries that will allow you to
upgrade bits and pieces of the Starlink Software Collection without
having to upgrade large chunks (for example, if a bug in the AST
library is fixed, all you have to upgrade is your AST installation
instead of everything that depends on it).  This will allow you to
quickly update software instead of having to wait for large-scale
releases like this one. This release also comes with a simplified
installation, using standard Apple Package technology to present an
installation program that you're probably familiar with. It will still
install into the /local-star directory, however.

If you have any questions about or problems with installing the
software, please feel free to contact me via email at
b.cavanagh@....

Cheers,
  Brad Cavanagh.

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--- In osxastro@yahoogroups.com, Nimesh Patel <nimeshapatel@g...> wrote:
> Perhaps people already know this or have worked-around but here is
> what I did to get JObserve java program to run on my G4 (OSX 10.3.8):
>

Hi everyone - just joined the group.

Just to let you know I submitted a patch to the JObserve guys back in November
so it'll
hopefully work from the next release 'out of the box'.

Also, quick plug of my own page which has been going a while - http://www-
astro.physics.ox.ac.uk/~eme/mac.html

Naomi - feel free to duplicate any info or just link back. I've a few other
handy links at the
bottom you might want to copy as well.

--
Edd

thanks Nimesh. I added it to the webpage.

naomi.

On Mar 2, 2005, at 5:41 PM, Nimesh Patel wrote:

>
> Perhaps people already know this or have worked-around but here is
> what I did to get JObserve java program to run on my G4 (OSX 10.3.8):
>
> -Downloaded the JObserve package from:
> http://www.aoc.nrao.edu/software/jobserve/
> into ~/Library folder (Not the root Library but the one under home
> directory).
> Edited the file jobserve.sh to:
>
> #!/bin/sh -f
> JO_HOME=~/Library/jobserve-1.7.2/
> CLASSPATH=$JO_HOME/JObserve.jar
> LANG=en_US
> export CLASSPATH LANG
> JOPATH=$CLASSPATH
> JAVA_HOME=/Library/Java/Home/
> export JAVA_HOME
> JAVA=$JAVA_HOME/bin/java
> $JAVA -Djava.security.manager
> -Djava.security.policy=$JO_HOME/java.policy  -cp $JOPATH
> edu.nrao.vla.jobserve.Observe -d $JO_HOME $*
>
> (make sure there is no line-break in the last two lines above - or put
> a \)
>  Start program as:
> ~/Library/jobserve-1.7.2/jobserve.sh or put it in path.
> Have'nt tested everything yet.
>
> Best wishes,
> Nimesh
>
>
>
> Professional Astronomy Software for OSX:
> http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/~nridge/osxastro/
>
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>
>
>
>

Perhaps people already know this or have worked-around but here is
what I did to get JObserve java program to run on my G4 (OSX 10.3.8):

-Downloaded the JObserve package from:
http://www.aoc.nrao.edu/software/jobserve/
into ~/Library folder (Not the root Library but the one under home directory).
Edited the file jobserve.sh to:

#!/bin/sh -f
JO_HOME=~/Library/jobserve-1.7.2/
CLASSPATH=$JO_HOME/JObserve.jar
LANG=en_US
export CLASSPATH LANG
JOPATH=$CLASSPATH
JAVA_HOME=/Library/Java/Home/
export JAVA_HOME
JAVA=$JAVA_HOME/bin/java
$JAVA -Djava.security.manager
-Djava.security.policy=$JO_HOME/java.policy  -cp $JOPATH
edu.nrao.vla.jobserve.Observe -d $JO_HOME $*

(make sure there is no line-break in the last two lines above - or put a \)
  Start program as:
~/Library/jobserve-1.7.2/jobserve.sh or put it in path.
Have'nt tested everything yet.

Best wishes,
Nimesh

Tyler, I am using GildasOSX1.0 from
http://www.astro.lsa.umich.edu/~smaret/index.php?page=software, but I
don't think I have the components that need F90. Naomi, your
instructions for writing individual spectra to FITS using LAS\FITS
worked, thanks. When I type HELP LAS\FITS, I just get the message
"W-HELP,  No help for FITS". Thus, I wasn't able to get the command
syntax right.

I can now get my spectra into IGOR (see www.wavemetrics.com).

Lewis
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On Feb 23, 2005, at 13:00, Naomi Ridge wrote:




the CLASS/FITS conversion task has been incorporated into the other
programs.

E.g., from within CLASS:

LAS> help las\fits
         LAS\FITS READ  file[.fits]
         LAS\FITS WRITE file[.fits] /MODE SPECTRUM|INDEX [/BITS nbits]

     Either  READ  the file.fits FITS file to the CLASS internal data
format.
     Please note that not all FITS files may be read by CLASS, and some
head-
     er information might be incomplete when doing so.

     Or  WRITE  the  file.fits FITS file from the CLASS internal data
format.
     /MODE is a mandatory argument which can take the following values:
       SPECTRUM : a simple FITS file is written from the current
spectrum
                  in memory is written.
       INDEX    : a FITS BINTABLE is written from all the spectra in
current
                  index. The USER MUST make sure that all index spectra
are
                  consistent (same source, same line, same frequency
setup,
                  ...)
     The number of bits per intensity value used when writing the  FITS 
file
     may be controlled through the /NBITS optional argument. It can be:
16 or
     I*2(2 bits integer), 32 or I*4 (4 bits integer) or -32 or  R*4  (4 
bits
     real).

     The  default  mode  and number of bits can also be specified
through the
     commands
       SET FITS BITS nbits
       SET FITS MODE SPECTRUM|INDEX

LAS>



naomi.



On Feb 23, 2005, at 3:53 PM, Lewis Knee wrote:

  > Hi,
  >
  > Does anyone know how to output spectra to FITS using the OS X version
  > of CLASS? The GFITS program seems to have vanished, and the
GILDAS_FITS
  > task just seems to hang.
  >
  > Lewis
  > -----------------------------------------------
  > Dr. Lewis B.G. Knee   lewis.knee@...
  > http://hia-iha.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/staff/knee_e.html
  > http://hia-iha.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/staff/knee_f.html
  > Tel. +1-250-363-6919       Fax. +1-250-363-6916
  >
  > Senior Research Officer                      Agent de recherche
  > principal
  > Group Leader                                 Chef de groupe
  > Millimetre Astronomy Group                   Groupe d'astronomie
  > millimétrique
  > Canadian ALMA Project Manager                Gestionnaire canadien du
  > projet de l'ALMA
  > Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics           Institut Herzberg
  > d'astrophysique
  >
  >
  >
  >
  > Professional Astronomy Software for OSX:
  > http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/~nridge/osxastro/
  >
  >
  > Yahoo! Groups Links
  >
  >
  >
  >
  > <nrc-cnrc.gif>




   Professional Astronomy Software for OSX:
http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/~nridge/osxastro/

 
Yahoo! Groups Links



 

sorry, I meant to add that you can also convert a gdf file made with
the "cube" command into a FITS file from within CLASS by using the
VECTOR\FITS command:

          [VECTOR\]FITS FitsFile WichWay GildasFile [/STYLE Style]
[/XTENSION Number] [/BITS Nbit]

      Convert between FITS files and Gildas images. The FITS command is
just a
      wrapper around the FITSGILDAS and GILDASTS tasks. See those for
details.

      [VECTOR\]FITS   OutputFile.fits   FROM   InputFile.gdf   [/STYLE
Style] [/BITS Nbit]

      Create a FITS file from a Gildas image. The layout of the FITS file
   de-
      pends on the specified "Style", although default styles will be
used de-
      pending on the Gildas image (e.g. UVFITS is used for UV Tables,
STANDARD
      is used for images). The number of bits is controlled by "Nbit",
and de-
      fault to -32 for images, and 16 for UV data.

              [VECTOR\]FITS InputFile.fits TO  GildasFile.gdf  [/STYLE
Style]
              [/XTENSION Number]

      Convert  the  InputFile.fits  FITS  file  into a Gildas image in
Gildas-
      File.gdf, using the appropriate "Style". A specific XTENSION can be
used
      instead of the main FITS header when needed.
-------------

This works very well for me, and makes much more friendly FITS files
than the GFITS version which I often found had problems with the
headers when I tried to import them into other programs.

naomi.



On Feb 23, 2005, at 4:00 PM, Naomi Ridge wrote:

>
>
> the CLASS/FITS conversion task has been incorporated into the other
> programs.
>
> E.g., from within CLASS:
>
> LAS> help las\fits
>          LAS\FITS READ  file[.fits]
>          LAS\FITS WRITE file[.fits] /MODE SPECTRUM|INDEX [/BITS nbits]
>
>      Either  READ  the file.fits FITS file to the CLASS internal data
> format.
>      Please note that not all FITS files may be read by CLASS, and some
> head-
>      er information might be incomplete when doing so.
>
>      Or  WRITE  the  file.fits FITS file from the CLASS internal data
> format.
>      /MODE is a mandatory argument which can take the following values:
>        SPECTRUM : a simple FITS file is written from the current
> spectrum
>                   in memory is written.
>        INDEX    : a FITS BINTABLE is written from all the spectra in
> current
>                   index. The USER MUST make sure that all index spectra
> are
>                   consistent (same source, same line, same frequency
> setup,
>                   ...)
>      The number of bits per intensity value used when writing the  FITS
> file
>      may be controlled through the /NBITS optional argument. It can be:
> 16 or
>      I*2(2 bits integer), 32 or I*4 (4 bits integer) or -32 or  R*4  (4
> bits
>      real).
>
>      The  default  mode  and number of bits can also be specified
> through the
>      commands
>        SET FITS BITS nbits
>        SET FITS MODE SPECTRUM|INDEX
>
> LAS>
>
>
> naomi.
>
>
> On Feb 23, 2005, at 3:53 PM, Lewis Knee wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Does anyone know how to output spectra to FITS using the OS X version
>> of CLASS? The GFITS program seems to have vanished, and the
>> GILDAS_FITS
>> task just seems to hang.
>>
>> Lewis
>> -----------------------------------------------
>> Dr. Lewis B.G. Knee   lewis.knee@...
>> http://hia-iha.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/staff/knee_e.html
>> http://hia-iha.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/staff/knee_f.html
>> Tel. +1-250-363-6919       Fax. +1-250-363-6916
>>
>> Senior Research Officer                      Agent de recherche
>> principal
>> Group Leader                                 Chef de groupe
>> Millimetre Astronomy Group                   Groupe d'astronomie
>> millimétrique
>> Canadian ALMA Project Manager                Gestionnaire canadien du
>> projet de l'ALMA
>> Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics           Institut Herzberg
>> d'astrophysique
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Professional Astronomy Software for OSX:
>> http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/~nridge/osxastro/
>>
>>
>> Yahoo! Groups Links
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> <nrc-cnrc.gif>
>
>
>
> Professional Astronomy Software for OSX:
> http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/~nridge/osxastro/
>
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>
>
>
>
>

the CLASS/FITS conversion task has been incorporated into the other
programs.

E.g., from within CLASS:

LAS> help las\fits
          LAS\FITS READ  file[.fits]
          LAS\FITS WRITE file[.fits] /MODE SPECTRUM|INDEX [/BITS nbits]

      Either  READ  the file.fits FITS file to the CLASS internal data
format.
      Please note that not all FITS files may be read by CLASS, and some
head-
      er information might be incomplete when doing so.

      Or  WRITE  the  file.fits FITS file from the CLASS internal data
format.
      /MODE is a mandatory argument which can take the following values:
        SPECTRUM : a simple FITS file is written from the current spectrum
                   in memory is written.
        INDEX    : a FITS BINTABLE is written from all the spectra in
current
                   index. The USER MUST make sure that all index spectra
are
                   consistent (same source, same line, same frequency
setup,
                   ...)
      The number of bits per intensity value used when writing the  FITS
file
      may be controlled through the /NBITS optional argument. It can be:
16 or
      I*2(2 bits integer), 32 or I*4 (4 bits integer) or -32 or  R*4  (4
bits
      real).

      The  default  mode  and number of bits can also be specified
through the
      commands
        SET FITS BITS nbits
        SET FITS MODE SPECTRUM|INDEX

LAS>


naomi.


On Feb 23, 2005, at 3:53 PM, Lewis Knee wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Does anyone know how to output spectra to FITS using the OS X version
> of CLASS? The GFITS program seems to have vanished, and the GILDAS_FITS
> task just seems to hang.
>
> Lewis
> -----------------------------------------------
> Dr. Lewis B.G. Knee   lewis.knee@...
> http://hia-iha.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/staff/knee_e.html
> http://hia-iha.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/staff/knee_f.html
> Tel. +1-250-363-6919       Fax. +1-250-363-6916
>
> Senior Research Officer                      Agent de recherche
> principal
> Group Leader                                 Chef de groupe
> Millimetre Astronomy Group                   Groupe d'astronomie
> millimétrique
> Canadian ALMA Project Manager                Gestionnaire canadien du
> projet de l'ALMA
> Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics           Institut Herzberg
> d'astrophysique
>
>
>
>
> Professional Astronomy Software for OSX:
> http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/~nridge/osxastro/
>
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>
>
> <nrc-cnrc.gif>

Hmm, I have gfits in my OSX installation.  Are you using the new
Gildas that requires f90, or the older cobbled together binaries
for OSX that use the older Gildas?

The old version is at:
http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/~bourke/OSX/

- Tyler

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On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, Lewis Knee wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Does anyone know how to output spectra to FITS using the OS X version
> of CLASS? The GFITS program seems to have vanished, and the GILDAS_FITS
> task just seems to hang.
>
> Lewis
> -----------------------------------------------
> Dr. Lewis B.G. Knee   lewis.knee@...
> http://hia-iha.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/staff/knee_e.html
> http://hia-iha.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/staff/knee_f.html
> Tel. +1-250-363-6919       Fax. +1-250-363-6916
>
> Senior Research Officer                      Agent de recherche
> principal
> Group Leader                                 Chef de groupe
> Millimetre Astronomy Group                   Groupe d'astronomie
> millimétrique
> Canadian ALMA Project Manager                Gestionnaire canadien du
> projet de l'ALMA
> Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics           Institut Herzberg
> d'astrophysique
>
>
>
>
> Professional Astronomy Software for OSX:
> http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/~nridge/osxastro/
>
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>
>
>

Hi,

Does anyone know how to output spectra to FITS using the OS X version
of CLASS? The GFITS program seems to have vanished, and the GILDAS_FITS
task just seems to hang.

Lewis
-----------------------------------------------
Dr. Lewis B.G. Knee   lewis.knee@...
http://hia-iha.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/staff/knee_e.html
http://hia-iha.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/staff/knee_f.html
Tel. +1-250-363-6919       Fax. +1-250-363-6916

Senior Research Officer                      Agent de recherche
principal
Group Leader                                 Chef de groupe
Millimetre Astronomy Group                   Groupe d'astronomie
millimétrique
Canadian ALMA Project Manager                Gestionnaire canadien du
projet de l'ALMA
Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics           Institut Herzberg
d'astrophysique

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Keith Shortridge <ks@...>
> Date: February 17, 2005 6:05:15 PM EST
> To: nridge@...
> Cc: Tony Farrell <tjf@...>, Keith Shortridge
> <ks@...>
> Subject: AAO 'standalone' Figaro for OS X
>
> Naomi -
>
>    I saw your OS X astronomy software page mentioned in the Apple
> scitech mailing list. I thought I'd mention a couple of AAO packages
> that have been ported to a variety of systems and are actively
> developed under MacOS X.
>
>    My Figaro data reduction system - a bit long in the tooth now,
> but still in use by a number of die-hard astronomers - is available
> at ftp://ftp.aao.gov.au/pub/figaro
> There is a README, the full source (including build scripts that
> build under OS X) and some notes for OS X users. There is usually a
> version pre-built for OS X, but at the moment it isn't the latest
> version - that's on my to-do list.
>
>    (This AAO version of Figaro is closely related to the Starlink
> version, but is packaged as a completely standalone package - all
> you need is there in the tar file, and you don't have to install
> any Starlink software to run it. For this reason, I tend to
> describe it as 'standalone' Figaro.)
>
>    The AAO's distributed real-time data acquisition environment,
> DRAMA, has also been ported to OS X. DRAMA is described in detail at
> http://www.aao.gov.au/drama
> DRAMA runs on a variety of UNIX systems, VMS, and VxWorks. The OS X
> port is used at AAO mainly for testing, running data acquisition
> systems in simulation (often at home). In principle we could
> control instuments at the telescope from an OS X system, but at the
> moment we don't have any Macs being used as observing systems,
> although they're appearing in increasing numbers as general-purpose
> systems. Tony Farrell here handles the DRAMA releases, and I'm
> copying this e-mail to him.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Keith
>
> Keith Shortridge
> Anglo-Australian Observatory
> P.O. Box 296
> Epping, NSW 1710
> Australia
> Tel: +61-2-9372-4822
> Fax: +61-2-9372-4880
> email: ks@...

Thanks for the info on latex/pslatex/pdflatex.
Including pdf file directly is a nice option.

Does anyone know - if you start with a big ps file (a figure),
convert it to pdf, include it with your document, and create
a pdf file via latex, is the final file *smaller* in size
than if you just include the ps file (figure) and create a
pdf document?

I'll stick with my current setup for a couple of reasons  :)

1. So I don't forget to include the {math} etc at the
    start of my documents (I'm quite forgetful...)

2. Some people want ps, some want pdf, so I like to generate
    both for draft for co-authors etc.

Anyway, I have a script that does it all for me in my ~/bin dir
so its no hassle.

Good to see this list is useful!  To follow on from an earlier
post about WIP, Sebastien's fink version is great - gotta love
readline.

------
pslatex ${1}

dvips -o ${1}.ps ${1}

ps2pdf ${1}.ps ${1}.pdf
------

- T

On Feb 14, 2005, at 9:13 AM, Tyler Bourke wrote:
>
> For pdf files, I was not happy with pdflatex, so instead
> I use pslatex, dvips and then ps2pdf.   That way I end up with
> ps and pdf files, and the pdf is clear when viewed with acrobat
> (this works with pslatex, not latex).

you can avoid one step by using latex then dvipdf instead of dvips -
these display fine in Adobe acrobat and the files are usually a *lot*
smaller in size than the postscript file generated by dvips too.

naomi.



>
> - Tyler
> +----------------------------------------------------------------------
> -+
> | Tyler Bourke             tbourke@... |               *
>  |
> | Phone  1-617-496-7619      Fax  1-617-496-7554   |             *   *
>  |
> | WWW http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/~bourke           |   _--_|\       +
>  |
> | Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics      |  /      \     *
>  |
> | Submillimeter Array                              |  \_.--._/
>  |
> | 60 Garden St MS 78, Cambridge MA, 02138, USA     |        v
>  |
> +----------------------------------------------------------------------
> -+
>
> On Sun, 13 Feb 2005, nimeshapatel wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Hi all,
>> I would like to use the AASTeX package within TeXShop to prepare
>> manuscripts for ApJ etc. I just included the aastex.cls file within
>> the folder where I have my .tex file and figures. In my manuscript.tex
>> file I have the following at the beginning:
>>
>> ------------------------------------------cut-and-
>> paste----------------
>> \documentclass{aastex}
>>
>> %\newif\ifpdf
>> %\ifx\pdfoutput\undefined
>> %\pdffalse % we are not running PDFLaTeX
>> %\else
>> %\pdfoutput=1 % we are running PDFLaTeX
>> %\pdftrue
>> %\fi
>>
>> %\ifpdf
>> %\usepackage[pdftex]{graphicx}
>> %\else
>> %\usepackage{graphicx}
>> %\fi
>>
>> \begin{document}
>>
>> %\ifpdf
>> %\DeclareGraphicsExtensions{.pdf, .jpg, .tif}
>> %\else
>> %\DeclareGraphicsExtensions{.eps, .jpg}
>> %\fi
>> -----------------------------------------cut-and-
>> paste------------------
>>
>> I have had to comment out the lines as above to avoid error messages -
>> but I do want to generate a pdf file (using pdflatex) and include
>> figures within the manuscript, as I would normally do, using the
>> graphicx package. Is it possible to do this without any conflicts with
>> aastex?
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Nimesh
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Professional Astronomy Software for OSX:
>> http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/~nridge/osxastro/
>>
>>
>> Yahoo! Groups Links
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>
> Professional Astronomy Software for OSX:
> http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/~nridge/osxastro/
>
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>
>
>
>

Tyler,

On 2005 Feb 14 , at 14.13, Tyler Bourke wrote:

> For pdf files, I was not happy with pdflatex, so instead
> I use pslatex, dvips and then ps2pdf.   That way I end up with
> ps and pdf files, and the pdf is clear when viewed with acrobat
> (this works with pslatex, not latex).

This isn't pdf(la)tex's fault, but (to some extent) Adobe's.  It seems
that Acrobat displays bitmap fonts extremely badly, and it's not
greatly in their interests to make it display them any better.  What
pslatex does (as far as I understand it from the pslatex abstract) is
implicitly add

      \usepackage{times}
      \usepackage{mathptm}

to the beginning of your document, and then does some font scaling to
make things look nice.  That is, it uses Postscript fonts by default,
rather than the bitmapped CM ones, and Acrobat can display them fine.

If you add those same lines to a document and run it through pdflatex,
it should look perfectly OK in Acrobat, and take fewer steps.

If you're using a recent teTeX distribution (and I imagine the Fink one
is pretty recent), then I expect that the latex that pslatex is using
is actually pdfelatex, in a mode where it generates .dvi rather than
.pdf.

Norman


--
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Norman Gray  :  Physics & Astronomy, Glasgow University, UK
http://www.astro.gla.ac.uk/users/norman/  :  www.starlink.ac.uk

Hi Nimesh,

I use the fink teTex, so I can't help with TexShop.

For pdf files, I was not happy with pdflatex, so instead
I use pslatex, dvips and then ps2pdf.   That way I end up with
ps and pdf files, and the pdf is clear when viewed with acrobat
(this works with pslatex, not latex).

- Tyler
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Tyler Bourke             tbourke@... |               *    |
| Phone  1-617-496-7619      Fax  1-617-496-7554   |             *   *  |
| WWW http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/~bourke           |   _--_|\       +   |
| Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics      |  /      \     *    |
| Submillimeter Array                              |  \_.--._/          |
| 60 Garden St MS 78, Cambridge MA, 02138, USA     |        v           |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+

On Sun, 13 Feb 2005, nimeshapatel wrote:

>
>
> Hi all,
> I would like to use the AASTeX package within TeXShop to prepare
> manuscripts for ApJ etc. I just included the aastex.cls file within
> the folder where I have my .tex file and figures. In my manuscript.tex
> file I have the following at the beginning:
>
> ------------------------------------------cut-and-paste----------------
> \documentclass{aastex}
>
> %\newif\ifpdf
> %\ifx\pdfoutput\undefined
> %\pdffalse % we are not running PDFLaTeX
> %\else
> %\pdfoutput=1 % we are running PDFLaTeX
> %\pdftrue
> %\fi
>
> %\ifpdf
> %\usepackage[pdftex]{graphicx}
> %\else
> %\usepackage{graphicx}
> %\fi
>
> \begin{document}
>
> %\ifpdf
> %\DeclareGraphicsExtensions{.pdf, .jpg, .tif}
> %\else
> %\DeclareGraphicsExtensions{.eps, .jpg}
> %\fi
> -----------------------------------------cut-and-paste------------------
>
> I have had to comment out the lines as above to avoid error messages -
> but I do want to generate a pdf file (using pdflatex) and include
> figures within the manuscript, as I would normally do, using the
> graphicx package. Is it possible to do this without any conflicts with
> aastex?
> Thanks,
>
> Nimesh
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Professional Astronomy Software for OSX:
> http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/~nridge/osxastro/
>
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>
>
>
>
>

Nimesh,

On 2005 Feb 13 , at 19.41, Nimesh Patel wrote:

> Previously, I was getting this error:
>
>
> LaTeX Error: Option clash for package graphicx.

Ah, that musc have been because of the explicit [pdftex] option to
graphicx.  I'm not sure what the full story is, but I'm sure I remember
reading somewhere that it was best to avoid giving explicit driver
options to graphicx unless it turned out to be necessary (yes, this
_is_ a bit mysterious).

All the best,

Norman


--
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Norman Gray  :  Physics & Astronomy, Glasgow University, UK
http://www.astro.gla.ac.uk/users/norman/  :  www.starlink.ac.uk

Norman,
Many thanks for your suggestion. I do not get any errors now.
Previously, I was getting this error:


LaTeX Error: Option clash for package graphicx.

Nimesh


On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 18:16:10 +0000, Norman Gray <norman@...> wrote:
>
>  Nimesh, greetings,
>
>  On 2005 Feb 13 , at 16.58, nimeshapatel wrote:
>
>  > I would like to use the AASTeX package within TeXShop to prepare
>  > manuscripts for ApJ etc. I just included the aastex.cls file within
>  > the folder where I have my .tex file and figures.
>
>
>  > I have had to comment out the lines as above to avoid error messages -
>  > but I do want to generate a pdf file (using pdflatex) and include
>  > figures within the manuscript, as I would normally do, using the
>  > graphicx package. Is it possible to do this without any conflicts with
>  > aastex?
>
>  The following works for me, both within TeXShop and at the command-line:
>
>  %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
>  \documentclass{aastex}
>
>  \usepackage{ifpdf}
>  \usepackage{graphicx}
>
>  \ifpdf
>  \DeclareGraphicsExtensions{.pdf,.jpg,.tif}
>  \else
>  \DeclareGraphicsExtensions{.eps}
>  \fi
>
>  \begin{document}
>
>  Here is a figure
>  \begin{figure}
>  \includegraphics{f3}
>  \end{figure}
>
>  \end{document}
>  %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
>
>  The ifpdf package does the PDF testing straightforwardly (and handles a
>  couple of mild gotchas).  I recall that it's quite important not to
>  second-guess the loading of the graphicx package by enclosing it in
>  \ifpdf...\fi.  If pdf(la)tex is running, it'll cause graphicx to pick
>  up the right drivers.  This does, of course, rely on you having
>  converted your .eps files to .pdf beforehand, but I imagine you'll have
>  done that.
>
>  What errors were you getting?
>
>  All the best,
>
>  Norman
>
>
>  --
>  ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>  Norman Gray  :  Physics & Astronomy, Glasgow University, UK
>  http://www.astro.gla.ac.uk/users/norman/  :  www.starlink.ac.uk
>
>
>
>
>  Professional Astronomy Software for OSX:
>  http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/~nridge/osxastro/
>
>
>
>
>
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Nimesh, greetings,

On 2005 Feb 13 , at 16.58, nimeshapatel wrote:

> I would like to use the AASTeX package within TeXShop to prepare
> manuscripts for ApJ etc. I just included the aastex.cls file within
> the folder where I have my .tex file and figures.


> I have had to comment out the lines as above to avoid error messages -
> but I do want to generate a pdf file (using pdflatex) and include
> figures within the manuscript, as I would normally do, using the
> graphicx package. Is it possible to do this without any conflicts with
> aastex?

The following works for me, both within TeXShop and at the command-line:

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\documentclass{aastex}

\usepackage{ifpdf}
\usepackage{graphicx}

\ifpdf
\DeclareGraphicsExtensions{.pdf,.jpg,.tif}
\else
\DeclareGraphicsExtensions{.eps}
\fi

\begin{document}

Here is a figure
\begin{figure}
\includegraphics{f3}
\end{figure}

\end{document}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

The ifpdf package does the PDF testing straightforwardly (and handles a
couple of mild gotchas).  I recall that it's quite important not to
second-guess the loading of the graphicx package by enclosing it in
\ifpdf...\fi.  If pdf(la)tex is running, it'll cause graphicx to pick
up the right drivers.  This does, of course, rely on you having
converted your .eps files to .pdf beforehand, but I imagine you'll have
done that.

What errors were you getting?

All the best,

Norman


--
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Norman Gray  :  Physics & Astronomy, Glasgow University, UK
http://www.astro.gla.ac.uk/users/norman/  :  www.starlink.ac.uk

Hi all,
I would like to use the AASTeX package within TeXShop to prepare
manuscripts for ApJ etc. I just included the aastex.cls file within
the folder where I have my .tex file and figures. In my manuscript.tex
file I have the following at the beginning:

------------------------------------------cut-and-paste----------------
\documentclass{aastex}

%\newif\ifpdf
%\ifx\pdfoutput\undefined
%\pdffalse % we are not running PDFLaTeX
%\else
%\pdfoutput=1 % we are running PDFLaTeX
%\pdftrue
%\fi

%\ifpdf
%\usepackage[pdftex]{graphicx}
%\else
%\usepackage{graphicx}
%\fi

\begin{document}

%\ifpdf
%\DeclareGraphicsExtensions{.pdf, .jpg, .tif}
%\else
%\DeclareGraphicsExtensions{.eps, .jpg}
%\fi
-----------------------------------------cut-and-paste------------------

I have had to comment out the lines as above to avoid error messages -
but I do want to generate a pdf file (using pdflatex) and include
figures within the manuscript, as I would normally do, using the
graphicx package. Is it possible to do this without any conflicts with
aastex?
Thanks,

Nimesh

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Sébastien Maret <smaret@...>
> Date: January 30, 2005 3:53:47 PM EST
>
> As requested my Naomi some time ago, WIP is now available as a Fink
> package. Hopefully this will make the installation of WIP easier on
> MacOSX. This version supports readline, for command line editing.
>
> For now, WIP is only available in the unstable branch of Fink. Fink
> doesn't use the unstable by default, so you will need to configure it
> to install WIP. See this FAQ:
>
> http://fink.sourceforge.net/faq/usage-fink.php?phpLang=en#unstable
>
> I am the maintainer of this package, so please let me know of bugs,
> problems, etc. Please let me know also if it works well for you, so I
> can eventually move it to the stable branch.
>
> Best,
> Sébastien
>

If anyone is going to the AAS, make sure there are no animated slides*
in your Powerpoint files - when transferring them onto a Windows PC
(which is what will be provided) they won't work - you'll just get a
"Missing Plug-in"  error. I've also been told that a similar problem
occurs if you include an image by dragging it from the desktop rather
than using "Insert Picture" or copy and paste it from another
application.

If anyone knows an alternative solution to this please chip in - I have
to remake my two talks tomorrow...

naomi.

* e.g. text or images appearing/disappearing, not mpeg movies.