SETDEVICE procedure

Opens a graphical file and specifies the device number on basis of its extension (M.P. Boer & J.T.N.M. Thissen).

No options

Parameters

FILENAME = texts

Name of the graphical file including one of the possible extensions .hpg, .eps, .emf, .jpg, .tif, .png, .gmf or .bmp; must be set

NUMBER = scalars

Saves the device number corresponding to the graphical format specified by parameter FILENAME

Description

SETDEVICE opens a graphical file and specifies the device number on the basis of the extension of the given filename. The table below shows the correspondence between extension and device number.

Extension	Device number	Explanation
.hpg	4	HPGL file
.eps	5	Encapsulated PostScript file
.emf	6	Windows Enhanced Metafile
.jpg	7	JPEG file
.tif	8	TIFF file
.png	9	Portable Network Graphics file
.gmf	10	GenStat Metafile
.bmp	11	Windows Bitmap file

Options: none.

Parameters: FILENAME, NUMBER.