Interactive Data Language (IDL)
Making an IDL graph into a JPG/JPEG file
How to save an IDL plot as a jpeg file:
If you want to save a plot from IDL as a JPEG, after you made your plot in IDL you can type the following:
IDL> im=tvrd() ;im is an array
IDL> write_jpeg,'filename.jpeg',im
You can then exit IDL, and in the directory you want to save the file, type:
xv filename.jpeg
Now your plot is saved as a JPEG file.
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