JACH now maintain the Starlink packages including Kappa:
http://starlink.jach.hawaii.edu/

Best wishes,
Jenny Hatchell

On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 09:22 -0700, Michael Kaufman wrote:
> Hi All,
> I have an older distribution of the Starlink packages Kappa/Figaro/
> Datacube
> running on my G5. I'm trying to track down the last distribution of
> Kappa, specifically
> looking for a script called "clinplot.csh" which is not in the
> distribution I have installed.
> If someone could send me the script and/or point me to the full
> distribution I would
> appreciate it.
> Thanks
> Michael Kaufman
>
>
>
>
>
--
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tel. +44 (0)1392 725516 (NOTE NEW NUMBER)
School of Physics, University of Exeter,
Stocker Road, Exeter EX4 4QL, U.K.

Hi All,
I have an older distribution of the Starlink packages Kappa/Figaro/
Datacube
running on my G5. I'm trying to track down the last distribution of
Kappa, specifically
looking for a script called "clinplot.csh" which is not in the
distribution I have installed.
If someone could send me the script and/or point me to the full
distribution I would
appreciate it.
Thanks
Michael Kaufman

Hi Eric,

Like Jonathan Foster, I've never had any real problems joining or editing
figures in Illustrator and then using the result in LaTeX.  Unfortunately,
I don't recall ever seeing the error message you mention, so I don't have
an obvious solution.

One possible issue which occurs to me: in Illustrator, you can save
EPS files in several different versions (e.g., Illustrator CS3 vs CS2 vs
CS vs version 10 vs ...).  I tend to save EPS files one or two versions
older than the current version, on the principle that, e.g., Illustrator
CS3 EPS files might have some specifications or options that programs
like dvips may not (yet) know how to handle.

Illustrator does include a lot of extra information in the header of
the EPS file (some of which preserves Illustrator-specific information
like layers and grouping), and the size of this tends to increase for
later versions.  So you can get a smaller EPS file out of Illustrator by
specifying an early version -- though very early versions like v.3
only allow for simple figures; I think you need to specify at least
v.8 output in order to have mixed vector and bitmap/image artwork.

cheers,

Peter

At 3:03 PM -0500 1/24/08, Eric Jensen wrote:
Hi all,

A colleague of mine is trying to composite several postscript figures
into a single four-panel figure, and to add some basic annotation (a
few arrows and a little text); the ultimate destination of the
composite figure is in a Latex document. Since Adobe Illustrator can
handle postscript, this seemed like it might be a good way to go.
But this has proved unexpectedly problematic, as follows:

- The output .eps file from Illustrator doesn't work correctly in
Latex; running dvips on the .dvi file results in an error: "expected
to see %%EndBinary at end of data"

- The Latex/dvips error can be fixed by running the file through
eps2eps, but the result is a file that is 3 times as big as
Illustrator's output eps file, and significantly bigger than the sum
of the input postscript files.

The output eps file is saved with no embedded preview, so that's not
the problem. The nature of the errors suggests to me that somehow
Illustrator is saving some of the image data from the original
postscript files (one of which is a bitmap) in some compressed format
in its output postscript file, but I can't see how to tell it not to
do that, nor why the output file is so big compared to the inputs.

Any suggestions about a workaround here, or a better way to combine
and annotate figures, would be welcome.

Thanks,

Eric




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=============================================================
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fax  +49 (0)89 30000 3495     http://www.mpe.mpg.de/~erwin

Yet another approach I have used successfully to make composite figures
for publication is to build your composite figure in Keynote and export to
pdf.

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Department of Astronomy 	 ssm@...
Computer & Space Sciences Bldg  www.astro.umd.edu/~ssm
University of Maryland 	 ph:  (301) 405-7897
College Park, MD 20742-2421  fax: (301) 314-9067

On Jan 24, 2008 10:16 AM, Naomi Ridge <nridge@...> wrote:
>  I used to use the Starlink "psmerge" utility (which is different to
>  the unix psmerge command) - there is info at: http://star-
>  www.rl.ac.uk/star/dvi/sun164.htx/sun164.html
>
>  No idea whether it's even possible to obtain it anymore though, since
>  Starlink is no more, as far as I am aware...

The Starlink Software Collection is still available, and it includes
the psmerge utility. You can get it at
http://starlink.jach.hawaii.edu/

And if you wait a couple of weeks there will be a new release out,
which should hopefully include a native Leopard build.

--
Brad Cavanagh, Data Reduction Software Engineer
Joint Astronomy Centre, Hilo, Hawaii
b.cavanagh@... / +1-808-969-6555

Starlink for OS X still exists...and is updated - I still use it.

http://starlink.jach.hawaii.edu/

- Tyler

On Jan 24, 2008, at 3:16 PM, Naomi Ridge wrote:

>
> I used to use the Starlink "psmerge" utility (which is different to
> the unix psmerge command) - there is info at: http://star-
> www.rl.ac.uk/star/dvi/sun164.htx/sun164.html
>
> No idea whether it's even possible to obtain it anymore though, since
> Starlink is no more, as far as I am aware...
>
> naomi.
>

Hi,

I've always used xfig. You can install for OSX from fink. It complains
about an old app-defaults setup when I start it, but it works fine. The
beauty of xfig is that it will maintain your vector postscript files as
vector images, without rasterising them. This is what eps2eps likely does,
to make output files 3 times bigger.

I guess Illustrator also handles vector images properly, but the results
don't seem to work. I'd suggest trying xfig to combine them.

For the annotations, you can do this in xfig. Or there is this suggestion
from the idl newsgroup. You can use text "markers" in the postscript file
to anchor labels, and add them in latex later, with the psfrag command.
And example of how to do this with IDL/latex is attached below.

cheers
chris


---------------
IDL commands to generate a figure with b and t as text markers:

N=1000

x=findgen(N)/(N-1)*10-5

mu=0.
sigma=1.

y=total(exp(-(x-mu)^2/(2*sigma^2)),/cumulative)*(x[1]-x[0])

set_plot,'PS'
device,filename='fig1.eps',/encapsulated,xsize=12.,ysize=8.
!p.font=0

plot,x,y,yrange=[0.,3.],thick=4,/xstyle,xrange=[-5,5],xtitle='x',ytitle='y'
oplot,!X.crange,sqrt(2*!Pi)*sigma*[1,1],linestyle=2

xyouts,0.,1.,'t',/data
xyouts,-3,2.65,'b'
device,/close
set_plot,'X'


;END IDL

LaTeX file:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{geometry}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{psfrag}
\pagestyle{empty}
\geometry{paperwidth=12.1cm,paperheight=8.1cm,margin=0pt}
\begin{document}
\psfrag{t}[l][][1.35]{$\displaystyle y=\int_{-\infty}^x
e^{-\left(\frac{t-\mu}{\sqrt{2}\sigma}\right)^2}\,\mathrm{d}t$}
\psfrag{x}[c][][1.75]{$x$}
\psfrag{y}[c][][1.75]{$y$}
\psfrag{b}[c][][1.35]{$\displaystyle y=\sqrt{2\pi}\sigma$}
\includegraphics[width=11.9cm,height=7.9cm]{fig1.eps}
\end{document}

---------------
Quoth Eric Jensen:

> Hi all,
>
> A colleague of mine is trying to composite several postscript figures
> into a single four-panel figure, and to add some basic annotation (a
> few arrows and a little text); the ultimate destination of the
> composite figure is in a Latex document.  Since Adobe Illustrator can
> handle postscript, this seemed like it might be a good way to go.
> But this has proved unexpectedly problematic, as follows:
>
>   - The output .eps file from Illustrator doesn't work correctly in
> Latex; running dvips on the .dvi file results in an error: "expected
> to see %%EndBinary at end of data"
>
> - The Latex/dvips error can be fixed by running the file through
> eps2eps, but the result is a file that is 3 times as big as
> Illustrator's output eps file, and significantly bigger than the sum
> of the input postscript files.
>
> The output eps file is saved with no embedded preview, so that's not
> the problem.  The nature of the errors suggests to me that somehow
> Illustrator is saving some of the image data from the original
> postscript files (one of which is a bitmap) in some compressed format
> in its output postscript file, but I can't see how to tell it not to
> do that, nor why the output file is so big compared to the inputs.
>
> Any suggestions about a workaround here, or a better way to combine
> and annotate figures, would be welcome.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Eric
>
>

> A colleague of mine is trying to composite several postscript figures
> into a single four-panel figure, and to add some basic annotation (a
> few arrows and a little text); the ultimate destination of the
> composite figure is in a Latex document.  Since Adobe Illustrator can
> handle postscript, this seemed like it might be a good way to go.
> But this has proved unexpectedly problematic, as follows:

Hi Eric,

Use xfig (available for Mac via fink). It's simple, will produce a
fully compliant EPS file, and the file size will basically be the sum
of the original EPS files, plus a tiny bit more for the annotations.

cheers
Bryan

I used to use the Starlink "psmerge" utility (which is different to
the unix psmerge command) - there is info at: http://star-
www.rl.ac.uk/star/dvi/sun164.htx/sun164.html

No idea whether it's even possible to obtain it anymore though, since
Starlink is no more, as far as I am aware...

naomi.


On Jan 24, 2008, at 3:03 PM, Eric Jensen wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> A colleague of mine is trying to composite several postscript figures
> into a single four-panel figure, and to add some basic annotation (a
> few arrows and a little text); the ultimate destination of the
> composite figure is in a Latex document. Since Adobe Illustrator can
> handle postscript, this seemed like it might be a good way to go.
> But this has proved unexpectedly problematic, as follows:
>
> - The output .eps file from Illustrator doesn't work correctly in
> Latex; running dvips on the .dvi file results in an error: "expected
> to see %%EndBinary at end of data"
>
> - The Latex/dvips error can be fixed by running the file through
> eps2eps, but the result is a file that is 3 times as big as
> Illustrator's output eps file, and significantly bigger than the sum
> of the input postscript files.
>
> The output eps file is saved with no embedded preview, so that's not
> the problem. The nature of the errors suggests to me that somehow
> Illustrator is saving some of the image data from the original
> postscript files (one of which is a bitmap) in some compressed format
> in its output postscript file, but I can't see how to tell it not to
> do that, nor why the output file is so big compared to the inputs.
>
> Any suggestions about a workaround here, or a better way to combine
> and annotate figures, would be welcome.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Eric
>
>
>

Hi all,

A colleague of mine is trying to composite several postscript figures
into a single four-panel figure, and to add some basic annotation (a
few arrows and a little text); the ultimate destination of the
composite figure is in a Latex document.  Since Adobe Illustrator can
handle postscript, this seemed like it might be a good way to go.
But this has proved unexpectedly problematic, as follows:

   - The output .eps file from Illustrator doesn't work correctly in
Latex; running dvips on the .dvi file results in an error: "expected
to see %%EndBinary at end of data"

- The Latex/dvips error can be fixed by running the file through
eps2eps, but the result is a file that is 3 times as big as
Illustrator's output eps file, and significantly bigger than the sum
of the input postscript files.

The output eps file is saved with no embedded preview, so that's not
the problem.  The nature of the errors suggests to me that somehow
Illustrator is saving some of the image data from the original
postscript files (one of which is a bitmap) in some compressed format
in its output postscript file, but I can't see how to tell it not to
do that, nor why the output file is so big compared to the inputs.

Any suggestions about a workaround here, or a better way to combine
and annotate figures, would be welcome.

Thanks,

Eric

Hello,

I have updated my FITS (Flexible Image Transport System) Library Package. 
Besides fixing a
few bugs related to writing header keywords under certain conditions, the major
improvement is that one can now write output to the input file even when the
dimensions of
an image extension have changed.  One can save to the same location in a set of
image
extensions or save to the end of the same file or to a new or different file. 
Some new
examples are included in the demo program "testfiles" for which executables are
available for
Linux on Intel, and Mac OS X on PPC.  The routines will compile on Linux  with
the Portland
Group F77 compiler, and on the Mac with the Absoft FORTRAN compiler.  The output
files all
pass the FITS File Verifier at
   fits.gsfc.nasa.gov/fits_verify.html
The source code, executables, and documentation can be downloaded from
   www.chara.gsu.edu/~gudehus/fits_library_package.html

Donald Gudehus
gudehus@...

Hi Chris,
Great to hear from you !!
Sorry, I forgot to send the link. Here it is:

http://www.oobject.com/category/most-wonderful-telescopes/

How are you ?

With all best wishes,
Tapasi

Hi Tapasi,

I'm not sure if it's just me, but I didn't see the link in the email.
Could you repost the link please?

Chris


On 10/26/07, Tapasi Ghosh <tghosh@...> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  I had been a silent listener for a long while. Coming up to send this
>  link (intention will be obvious when you go there), but please check
>  out, vote if you like, and spread the words around.
>  Thanks,
>  Tapasi Ghosh
>

Hi,

I had been a silent listener for a long while. Coming up to send this
link (intention will be obvious when you go there), but please check
out, vote if you like, and spread the words around.
Thanks,
Tapasi Ghosh

On 20 Jun 2007, at 13:58, <argote@...> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> We got IDL on our Mac OS X (Tiger) Server, but some PC users can't
> run/display
> it remotely (through the X Windows System XWin32).
>
> We know that XWin32 can run IRAF remotely (in rootless mode) from
> our Mac OS X
> server, but we haven't been successful with IDL. Have any body of
> you had this
> problem in a multi-platform network?
>
> We are trying to figure out where is the problem (IDL, the X
> Windows used, or
> Mac Server configurations)... Any ideas/suggestions will be highly
> appreciated.
>
What error is it failing with? I know there have been some problems
with IDL and recent X windows servers on Linux but not Windows, and
there are other things it might be but it's the first time I've heard
of any issues with XWin32.

--
Edd

Hello all,

We got IDL on our Mac OS X (Tiger) Server, but some PC users can't run/display
it remotely (through the X Windows System XWin32).

We know that XWin32 can run IRAF remotely (in rootless mode) from our Mac OS X
server, but we haven't been successful with IDL.  Have any body of you had this
problem in a multi-platform network?

We are trying to figure out where is the problem (IDL, the X Windows used, or
Mac Server configurations)...  Any ideas/suggestions will be highly
appreciated.

Thanks,

Mauricio Argote-Cortes                   Email address: argote@...
Department of Physics and Astronomy      Phone: 416-736-2100 x 66391
York University
4700 Keele Street North York, Ontario
M3J 1P3, CANADA

Thanks to all who replied with suggestions.

It seems that none of these is perfect for my needs, but most are pretty
decent.  Here's my quick summary of what I've found, in case it is
useful to others:

The older clients (e.g. the original "VNCviewer") don't support the
"tight" encoding, which I find helps a lot with connection speed.  Since
I spend a lot of time using VNC, this is pretty important to me.

Chicken of the VNC is clearly slower than the darwinports viewer, but it
does have at least some clipboard support, and does seem better in the
current 2.0b4 version than when I last tried it.  The clipboard is a
little flaky, but flaky is better than nothing.

The Vine viewer has good clipboard support in one direction
(local->remote), but not the other; I'm still exchanging messages with
the support people about why this is, since the docs say it should work
both ways.

The Vine viewer also has built-in support for ssh tunneling (as does the
darwinports one, via command-line arguments).  This isn't a huge deal -
I can still open the ssh connection in another window - but it does save
a step.

The Vine viewer appears to be the only one in active development; if
they can work out a few more things (like better clipboard support and
fullscreen mode) I'll probably go in that direction eventually, but for
now I think I'll go back to Chicken for a while and see how it holds up
under heavy use.

Thanks again to all - I'm glad to see that there are still people on the
list.

Best,

Eric

I've been using Chicken of the VNC, which seems to work well,
though I haven't tried copy/paste between server and client, so
I don't know if that is possible.

Elinor

On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 10:22:40PM -0400, Eric Jensen wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Not sure if this list is still active since there hasn't been any
> traffic for some time, but here goes:
>
> Does anyone have a VNC client for OS X that they find works well?  I've
> been using the darwinports tightvnc viewer, but (a) it doesn't support
> copy/paste between server and client, and (b) it won't compile on my new
> Intel MacBook.
>
> Any thoughts are appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Eric
>
> --
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Eric Jensen                         Office Phone:        610-328-8249
> Assoc. Prof. of Astronomy           Fax:                 610-328-7895
> Dept. of Physics and Astronomy      Research Lab Phone:  610-957-6084
> Swarthmore College                  Office: Science Center 123
> Swarthmore, PA 19081-1390           E-mail: ejensen1@...
> USA 			    http://astro.swarthmore.edu/~jensen/
>
>
> Professional Astronomy Software for OSX:
> http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/~nridge/osxastro/
>
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>
>
> !DSPAM:4668bfde17983021468!
>

--
Elinor L. Gates                   email:  egates@...
Lick Observatory 	  office: (831)459-5910    cell: (408)202-1691
Mount Hamilton, CA 95140   fax:    (831)459-5917

I also use Chicken of the VNC regularly, with the server on a Linux box.
Cut and paste is a bit like chinese whispers, though, eg.:

"In many cases, the luminosities also rule those out"
became
"Iinn  mmaany cassees, tthhe lluuioosites lso rue te"!

I've also used OSXVnc as a server, but serving from the Mac hasn't been
very satisfactory (slow to redraw) and (Panther) it doesn't work with
the server and client on the same machine.

Best wishes,
Jenny.


On Thu, 2007-06-07 at 22:22 -0400, Eric Jensen wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Not sure if this list is still active since there hasn't been any
> traffic for some time, but here goes:
>
> Does anyone have a VNC client for OS X that they find works well? I've
> been using the darwinports tightvnc viewer, but (a) it doesn't support
> copy/paste between server and client, and (b) it won't compile on my
> new
> Intel MacBook.
>
> Any thoughts are appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Eric
>
> --
> ----------------------------------------------------------
>
> Eric Jensen Office Phone: 610-328-8249
> Assoc. Prof. of Astronomy Fax: 610-328-7895
> Dept. of Physics and Astronomy Research Lab Phone: 610-957-6084
> Swarthmore College Office: Science Center 123
> Swarthmore, PA 19081-1390 E-mail: ejensen1@...
> USA http://astro.swarthmore.edu/~jensen/
>
>
>
>
--
Dr. Jennifer Hatchell  --  hatchell@...
tel. +44 (0)1392 262511
School of Physics, University of Exeter,
Stocker Road, Exeter EX4 4QL, U.K.

Quoth Eric Jensen:

> Not sure if this list is still active since there hasn't been any
> traffic for some time, but here goes:
>
> Does anyone have a VNC client for OS X that they find works well?  I've
> been using the darwinports tightvnc viewer, but (a) it doesn't support
> copy/paste between server and client, and (b) it won't compile on my new
> Intel MacBook.

I use "Chicken of the VNC"...which, despite the weird name, works well for
me.

http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/networking_security/chickenofthevnc.html

cheers
chris

Hi all,

Not sure if this list is still active since there hasn't been any
traffic for some time, but here goes:

Does anyone have a VNC client for OS X that they find works well?  I've
been using the darwinports tightvnc viewer, but (a) it doesn't support
copy/paste between server and client, and (b) it won't compile on my new
Intel MacBook.

Any thoughts are appreciated.

Thanks,

Eric

--
-------------------------------------------------------------------------

Eric Jensen                         Office Phone:        610-328-8249
Assoc. Prof. of Astronomy           Fax:                 610-328-7895
Dept. of Physics and Astronomy      Research Lab Phone:  610-957-6084
Swarthmore College                  Office: Science Center 123
Swarthmore, PA 19081-1390           E-mail: ejensen1@...
USA 			    http://astro.swarthmore.edu/~jensen/

Hi Marcos,

I am actually going to be leaving astronomy, so I am looking for
someone to take over the mailing list. I was wondering if you'd be
interested.

naomi.

On Nov 21, 2006, at 3:38 PM, Stefan_Boltzmann wrote:

> Well, I don't know how I never heard of this group before. It looks
> like quite a useful
> resource. I have maintained the "Macintosh IRAF Web page" for a
> while, and recently moved
> it to a new host, along with broadening the theme to more generally
> cover Mac/Astronomy
> news and tips.
>
> The web site is at:
>
> http://macsingularity.org/
>
> for those of you who have never seen it. The new site is more
> searchable, and I'm finally
> bringing some Intel .pkg installers for IRAF and the like online.
> Any feedback would be
> appreciated.
>
> Marcos
>
>
>

----- Original Message -----

From: Stefan_Boltzmann

To: osxastro@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2006 4:38 AM

Subject: [OSXAstro] Greetings

Well, I don't know how I never heard of this group before. It looks like quite a useful
resource. I have maintained the "Macintosh IRAF Web page" for a while, and recently moved
it to a new host, along with broadening the theme to more generally cover Mac/Astronomy
news and tips.

The web site is at:

http://macsingularity.org/

for those of you who have never seen it. The new site is more searchable, and I'm finally
bringing some Intel .pkg installers for IRAF and the like online. Any feedback would be
appreciated.

Marcos

Well, I don't know how I never heard of this group before.  It looks like quite
a useful
resource.  I have maintained the "Macintosh IRAF Web page" for a while, and
recently moved
it to a new host, along with broadening the theme to more generally cover
Mac/Astronomy
news and tips.

The web site is at:

http://macsingularity.org/

for those of you who have never seen it.  The new site is more searchable, and
I'm finally
bringing some Intel .pkg installers for IRAF and the like online.  Any feedback
would be
appreciated.

Marcos

Thank you Jeremy, Mauricio & Doug,

I followed Jeremy's recommendation to delete the Ooffice library
preferences.  I followed Mauricio's & Doug's recommendation to check
out Neooffice.  It's very nice.

Bernie

On Nov 15, 2006, at 10:27 AM, Doug Burke wrote:

>
> Bernie,
>
> There is/was a problem with OO and the recent 1.1.2 X11 update from
> apple: for instance
>
> http://www.nabble.com/Recent-Apple-x11-update,-Open-Office-will-not-
> open-t2598935.html
>
> The page includes a work around for the problem. I *think* that it is
> only a problem for the 1.1.2 Apple X11 update (ie if you update to
> 1.1.3 the problem has been fixed).
>
> As an alternative I've had good luck using NeoOffice - it's based
> on OO
> 2.0 but has a more Mac look and feel. It can be grabbed from
>
> http://www.neooffice.org/
>
> [once you download the 2.0 beta 3 version don't forget to also
> download
> the patch set - I think it's at revision 7 at the moment]
>
> On Nov 15, 2006, at 12:24 PM, Bernie Walp wrote:
>
> > Does anyone have success (or trouble) with Open Office 2.0 on the
> > newer Macs, the ones with the Intel processors?
> >
> > I ask because I installed openoffice.org's Intel version, opened one
> > file, closed it, and since then have never been able to start
> > openoffice--it shuts down right after displaying the pretty Open
> > Office trade-mark. Deleting & reinstalling doesn't seem to help.
> >
> > Thanks for any perspective,
> > B.w
> >
> > P.S.: Perhaps this is my punishment bothering to read M'Soft files
> > mass-emailed by university administration office workers :(-Q
> >
> > P.P.S.: else perhaps it's punishment for ignoring everyone's advice
> > never to install anything with a version number ending in point-zero
> >
> >
>
>  !DSPAM:455b62ee21007914024448!