I've edited the Users Guide so that the section about removing labels from plots includes more info about the /NOLABELS qualifier for plot commands, and also the handy "MODE LOGO" which lets you turn off the Ferret logo in the upper right hand corner of plots. That documentation change will be on our pages the next time we publish them to the public server.
Since we're talking about viewports, it's often nice to define them with less white space between them, which is easily done with the /AXES qualifier on DEFINE VIEWPORT.
It also makes a nicer presentation to share a color key for all the plots, when the color key is the same. Here's a message which talks about that: http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/maillists/tmap/ferret_users/fu_2000/msg00226.html
One more detail is to use the PPL axlabp command to remove the some of the plot-axis labels, so that only axes along the left and bottom sides of the viewports are labeled (again, if they all share the same axes). That makes it possible to clean up plots even further.
ppl axlabp,-1,-1 ! Label the y-axis, on the left, x-axis on the bottom
ppl axlabp,0,-1 ! Label only the y-axis, on the left
ppl axlabp,0,0 ! No axis labels.
ppl axlabp,-1,0 ! Label x-axis on the bottom
The script for this plot is below. When taking off Ferret's automatically-generated labels, we have to do extra work to annotate the plots, but for a final plot, it's worth the effort.
define view/axes/xlimits=0.07,0.47/ylimits=0.1,.35 botl
define view/axes/xlimits=0.07,0.47/ylimits=.4,.65 midl
define view/axes/xlimits=0.07,0.47/ylimits=.7,.95 topl
define view/axes/xlimits=0.5,0.9/ylimits=0.1,.35 botr
define view/axes/xlimits=0.5,0.9/ylimits=.4,.65 midr
define view/axes/xlimits=0.5,0.9/ylimits=.7,.95 topr
use coads_climatology
! Draw 6 months of plots. Set the contour levels on the first one, and then use /LEV
! to reuse the same levels on other plots.
! Make a label above each plot with the month.
ppl axlabp,0,-1 ! Label only the y-axis, on the left
set view topl; shade/lev=(-inf)(0,30,1)(inf)/L=1/nokey/nolab sst
label/nouser `($ppl$xlen)/2`, `($ppl$ylen)-0.2`,0,0,0.12,"January"
set v midl; shade/lev/l=2/nokey/nolab sst
label/nouser `($ppl$xlen)/2`, `($ppl$ylen)-0.2`,0,0,0.12,"February"
ppl axlabp,0,-1 ! Label x-axis on the bottom, y-axis, on the left
set v botl; shade/lev/l=3/nokey/nolab sst
label/nouser `($ppl$xlen)/2`, `($ppl$ylen)-0.2`,0,0,0.12,"March"
ppl axlabp,0,0 ! No axis labels
set v topr; shade/lev/l=4/nokey/nolab sst
label/nouser `($ppl$xlen)/2`, `($ppl$ylen)-0.2`,0,0,0.12,"April"
set v midr; shade/lev/l=5/nokey/nolab sst
label/nouser `($ppl$xlen)/2`, `($ppl$ylen)-0.2`,0,0,0.12,"May"
ppl axlabp,-1,0 ! Label x-axis on the bottom
! This last plot will include the color key. It's drawn using SHAKEY settings, to
! make extra long covering the entire right-hand side.
set v botr; shade/lev/l=6/set/nolab sst
ppl shakey 1 1 .12 1 3 9 `($ppl$xlen)+1.2+.5` `($ppl$xlen)+1.2+1` 1.4 `1.4+3*($ppl$ylen)+1`
ppl shade
label/nouser `($ppl$xlen)/2`, `($ppl$ylen)-0.2`,0,0,0.12,"June"
! Now do a completely blank plot on the full page, to set
! plot symbols and let us locate a label across the bottom.
set view full
plot/nolab/noaxes/color=white/sym/i=1:2 i
label/nouser `($ppl$xlen)/2`,-1.1,0,0,0.16, COADS Climatology SST (Deg C)
On 5/18/2012 7:46 AM, Karl Smith wrote:
Hi Sudev, See if FILL /NOLABELS does what you need. FILL is another name for CONTOUR /FILL, so check the Ferret documentation for CONTOUR for this option . Karl On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 5:58 AM, Sudev Das M P <devdas.pnr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:Hai, I want to remove the labels on the view port. I tried to do it but couldn't do it. What I tried I am giving below. Please give me some suggestion. Thanks, Sudev ========================================================== !Open dataset use "file.nc" !To create the metafile set mode metafile !To show the details of the dataset show data !To show the details of the variable "temp" show grid temp !To set the window size SET WINDOW/SIZE=0.9/ASPECT=0.9 fill/k=1/l=1 temp go fland ppl list labels !shows the 6 removable labels. ppl labs/nouser,7.790E+00,7.390E+00,0.060,0 @ASFERRET Ver. 6.2 ! removes ferret logo at top-right corner ppl labs/nouser,7.790E+00,7.290E+00,0.060,0 @ASNOAA/PMEL TMAP ! go remove_logo ==> equivalent to these ppl labs/nouser,7.790E+00,7.190E+00,0.060,0 @ASMay 17 2012 10:14:35 ! 3 lines ppl labs/nouser,0.000E+00,6.990E+00,0.120,0 @ASZ : 0 ! removes information about two axis/dims othernioa_clim ppl labs/nouser,0.000E+00,6.790E+00,0.120,0 @ASTIME : 15-JAN 00:00 NOLEAP ! than that on x and y axes from top-left corner ppl labs/nouser,7.790E+00,6.790E+00,0.120,0 @ASDATA SET ! removes data set name from top-right corner ppl fill ....................................................... ========================================================