[Mesa-users] [EXT] Pgplot - how to produce pdf plots?

[Pau A.S.]

Thanks! I'm getting what I wanted. I have a final question... Can I tell
pgplot to use a white background instead of a black one in the trho_profile
files??

On Sat, 24 Aug 2024, 17:50 Mathieu Renzo, <mrenzo at arizona.edu> wrote:

> This depends on what plot you are trying to save. For each of them there
> is a *_file_dir entry in the inlist_pgstar that you can customize. This is
> the sub-directory of the work directory where the pgstar files will be
> saved.
> For example, for an HR diagram that would be  `HR_file_dir`, which is by
> default set to `png`, so with the changes suggested above by Rich I get the
> files in hr_000005.eps in my work directory/png (but you may change this to
> any other subdirectory you want).
>
> So unless you have changed the *_file_dir explicitly, your eps will be
> inside the default folder which is probably called `png`.
>
>
> To save only the last one you could catch the stopping criterion of your
> model in your run_star_extras.f90 and call the function defined in star_lib
> called pgstar_write_plot_to_file (but I have not tested this).
>
> I hope this helps!
> Mathieu
>
> On 8/24/24 08:30, Pau A.S. wrote:
>
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> I am sorry but I don't see where the eps is being created. I did the
> suggested modifications but I don't see any eps creates after
>
> $ ./rn
>
> In particular I'm interested in the last one.
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>
> On Fri, 23 Aug 2024, 23:49 Mathieu Renzo via Mesa-users, <
> mesa-users at lists.mesastar.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi Pau,
>>
>> To add to Rich's answer, from $MESA_DIR/star/defaults/pgstar.defaults it
>> appears you can make pgplot output pdf directly. However, this is also
>> *incorrect*! Thanks for bringing our attention to this, we will improve the
>> documentation on this in future releases.
>>
>> What is currently that file:
>>
>>    ! File output
>>    ! -----------
>>
>>
>>       ! file_device
>>       ! ~~~~~~~~~~~
>>       ! file_extension
>>       ! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>
>>       ! 'png' is Portable Network Graphics format; can also use 'pdf'
>>
>>       ! ::
>>
>>     file_device = 'png'
>>     file_extension = 'png'
>>
>> This may make one think that  you can achieve what you want just setting
>> `file_device` and `file_extension` to pdf. I tested this and it does not
>> work.
>>
>> However, as a workaround, what does  work is to set those two options to
>> `ps` (for postscript), or go the way Rich suggested. As he said, ps and eps
>> are vector formats too, and should be easy to convert them to pdf
>> afterwards.
>> Cheers,
>> Mathieu
>>
>>
>>
>> On 8/23/24 14:02, Pau A.S. via Mesa-users wrote:
>>
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>> Dear all...
>>
>> I was wondering whether there's a tool to produce a pdf of the last
>> instant of output that pgplot produces on the screen, but of better
>> quality, maybe with python?
>>
>> Those two plots are very informative and it would be nice to have them on
>> pdf to explain things to students, etc
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
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