KnotPlot script for fancy_fillE

This page gives an example of a KnotPlot script that can be used to generate an Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) file. A bitmap preview of the EPS file is shown below. The EPS file is vector graphics, and is generally higher quality than the preview. To play with the KnotPlot script, you will need to download a copy of KnotPlot.

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Following is a detailed description on how the KnotPlot script was used to generate the files on this page. Example shown is for letter size paper. See the note (right) about printing to A4 paper. If you're only generating an EPS file for inclusion in another document, then you don't need to worry about setting the pagesize.

Run KnotPlot in non-graphics mode to generate the EPS file.

knotplot -nog < fancy_fillE.kps

One could instead run KnotPlot in graphics mode and enter the following command into the KnotPlot Command Window

<fancy_fillE.kps

We now have the file fancy_fillE.eps which could be printed directly on a PostScript printer. For printing to a non-PostScript printer, generate a PDF file fancy_fillE.pdf from the EPS file fancy_fillE.eps using Ghostscript.

# Note: enter the following three lines on one command line
gs -dCompatibilityLevel=1.3 -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH
   -sPAPERSIZE=letter -sDEVICE=pdfwrite
   -sOutputFile=fancy_fillE.pdf -c .setpdfwrite -f fancy_fillE.eps

The remainder of this example shows how the preview image seen above was created. This is useful for including an image on a web page or in a presentation. Printing the EPS or PDF file will give much higher quality than printing the preview image. These files, fancy_fillE.eps and fancy_fillE.pdf, as well as their counterparts for A4 paper, fancy_fillE_a4.eps and fancy_fillE_a4.pdf, can be downloaded using the links in the right hand panel on this page.

# run Ghostscript to generate a temporary PPM file
# Note: enter the following two lines on one command line
gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sPAPERSIZE=letter -sDEVICE=ppmraw
   -sOutputFile=fancy_fillE.ppm -r200 -f fancy_fillE.eps
 
# scale it down using ImageMagick convert command
convert -resize 600x fancy_fillE.ppm fancy_fillES.ppm
 
# reduce the number of distinct colours and create the gif
convert -colors 32 fancy_fillES.ppm fancy_fillE.gif
 
# delete temporary files
/bin/rm fancy_fillE.ppm fancy_fillES.ppm

KnotPlot script that generated the Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) file:

% KnotPlot script: fancy_fillE.kps
% Sat 09 Mar 2019 01:47:49 UTC

alloc 9999

cyl-rad=.4
psmode=41
pserase=2
psoption bbox small

d-torus=1.6
torus 1 5 144
about z 90
scale 1 1 .3

fitto leng 44
refine 33

cyl-rad=.001

double
Draw=f

warp install
d-torus=.6
cyl-rad=.2
pserase=1.7

torus 5 43 876
alternate
refine 3
warp bbconf

Draw=t

warp along
length

psoption fancy draw 7
psoption fancy fill 1 .8125 .625
psoption fancy eofill .625 .8125 1

psout fancy_fillE

% End of KnotPlot script

This script generates a EPS file (download below) suitable for printing on letter size paper. For printing on A4 size paper, use the command psop pagesize a4 prior to the psout command.

Download a high quality PDF or EPS file (for either letter or A4 size paper):

• fancy_fillE.pdf (123 kbytes)
• fancy_fillE_a4.pdf (122 kbytes)
• fancy_fillE.eps (239 kbytes)
• fancy_fillE_a4.eps (239 kbytes)

The PDF files and the preview image seen on this page were generated from the EPS files using Ghostscript (details in left panel on this page).