Hi -
I think you'll be very happy if you upgrade your Ferret; you'll be
able to use the graticules and lots of other new features that have
been added to Ferret since then. Let's wait and see if you are able
to use
ferret -gif once you upgrade - if not we can help
you check into what's happening.
About vector line styles, a couple of ideas. There is an FAQ about
line-thickness in postscript output, which may be all that you need:
http://ferret.pmel.noaa.gov/Ferret/faq/changing-line-thickness-in-postscript-files
You can get a dashed line for vectors, but only for postscript
output from a metafile. In Fprint, there is an option to translate
the metafile into a black-and-white or a color plot. Here is the
help from Fprint:
> Fprint
Script to translate Ferret's graphics metafile(s) to PostScript
usage: Fprint [-P printer || -o file_name || -X]
[-p landscape || portrait] [-# <number of
copies>]
[-l ps || cps] [-R] metafile(s)
-P: send PostScript output to the named printer
-o: send PostScript output to a file and don't print the
plots
-X: send the plots to your X Window for preview
-p: page orientation, landscape or portrait
-#: print more than one copy of the plots
-l: line styles, ps == monochrome, cps == color
-R: do not rename files with a date stamp appended (default
is to stamp)
-C: Output a CMYK postscript file (default is RGB)
Examples:
Fprint metafile.plt*
Fprint -P marker -l cps -# 10 metafile.plt*
Fprint -p portrait -R metafile.plt.~2~
So, make your plot with different color pens for the different
styles,
yes? set mode meta
yes? ...
yes? vector u1,v1 ! solid lines
yes? vector/over/color=green u2,v2
! dotted lines (or equivalently /pen=3)
yes? vector/over/color=lightblue u3,v3
! dashed lines (or equivalently /pen=5)
yes? ...
Then translate that to postscript with '-l ps'
> Fprint -l ps metafile.plt -o blackwhite.ps
--Ansley
On 7/13/2011 1:37 AM, dessy berlianty wrote:
Dear Ferret Users,
I am using Ferret v5.53, and I think probably will not try to
upgrade this version...
After searching in Ferret User-Guide and Ferret Users Group
& E-mail Archive, I can not find the way to make dash
vector.
I will use this kind of vector to separate my graph into three
range value. I applying three thickness command (thick=1, 2, and
3), but the result shows not quite different for each thick
command.
I also tried using hgrat, but I think this command is not
suitable in my Ferret version.
My next question is how to insert small figure to main figure?
Actually, I always failed trying use Ferret -gif, any suggestion
about this problems?
Thank you in advance for any help and suggestion.
Sincerely yours,
dessy