Root creates a blurry .pdf image with huge lines

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hi… i have a problem… i have a macro that creates the following canvas with those pads but everytime i try to save it as a pdf this it what comes out… other macros wok fine and produce nice pdfs…

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does anyone have an idea what to do ?

best regards sebastian

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Can you show the PDF file you get ?

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i posted a screenshot of the pdf in the previous post …
here the pdf is attached
c.pdf (87.1 KB)

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Ah ok, it was a screen dump so it was not clear to me that it was the pdf.

This PDF was produce by a quit old version of ROOT. 5.22 … But you said that other pdf you generate looks good.

Does he look ok on screen ? can you generated the gif so I can see how it looks like on screen ?

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Try

gStyle->SetLineScalePS(1);

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[quote=“couet”]Try

gStyle->SetLineScalePS(1);[/quote]

hi …soo i tried this option and thats the output
c.pdf (87.1 KB)

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[quote=“couet”]Ah ok, it was a screen dump so it was not clear to me that it was the pdf.

This PDF was produce by a quit old version of ROOT. 5.22 … But you said that other pdf you generate looks good.

Does he look ok on screen ? can you generated the gif so I can see how it looks like on screen ?[/quote]

when i generate a gif of the code without gStyle->SetLineScalePS(1);

i get a perfectly good image…

but i need this for my thesis and do not want to work with .gif’s

FINAL1.gif1916×1097 89.1 KB

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The new PDf with ScalePs = 1 looks like the gif to me…

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noo look at the graph in thew upper left side and all the markers are still to big …

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may be you set the PS scale too late ?

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hi couet… its okay i do not need the help anymore… i’m gona do it in a different way… thank for the help…