RE: lines thickness in PostScript file

["Farrar, Paul D" <FarrarP@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Put

ppl pen 0 7

before the plotting commands. That's a zero, not the letter "O". For even
thicker, use 13, instead of 7.

Paul Farrar

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	owner-ferret_users@pmel.noaa.gov
> [SMTP:owner-ferret_users@pmel.noaa.gov] On Behalf Of Emilie Vanvyve
> Sent:	Thursday, August 26, 2004 9:08 AM
> To:	Ferret users
> Subject:	lines thickness in PostScript file
> 
> Hello, 
> 
> I have two questions about the quality of Ferret graphical output saved
> into a .ps file. 
> 
> - Is there any way to increase the thickness of letters & box lines in
> Ferret? 
> - And is there any way to make the background transparent (or really
> white)? 
> 
> I work with a Mac, I use Fprint to get my plot in a PostScript file and
> then epstopdf to convert it into a pdf. 
> 
> My problem is that in the .ps (and .pdf) output, the graduation of the
> axis (tics and values), the line of the box around the plot, and the lines
> of the shakey are too thin. In fact, that's the case of all the black
> curves of my plot. 
> So, when I print the graph (in small dimension when included into
> Microsoft Word for example), they are defined so thin that they appear as
> thin grey lines (instead of real black lines). In a sense, that's a good
> news, my .ps is of good quality. I know how to modify the thickness of the
> curves inside my plot, but have no idea how to do "around" the plot. 
> The other quite annoying stuff is, no matter into which picture format I
> can convert my ps/pdf/eps file**, when I print  the graph from Microsoft
> Word or from a graphic application (Graphic Converter here), I get lots of
> small points on the background. I've been told the reason is that the
> background of my picture is not really white or not really transparent...
> Only eps(i) files do not present that small points when printed. By the
> way, if anyone knows how to add (simply and rapidly if possible, because I
> have lots of pictures) a tiff or pict preview in the eps(i) file on Mac,
> I'm highly interested !! 
> 
> **I've tried: tiff, bmp, gif, pict, epsf, jpg, png, psd, sgi, and wmf. 
> 
> I'm conscient these latter points are not really "inside&about" Ferret and
> sorry for that, but I might not be the only Ferreter with those
> problems... 
> 
> Thanks a lot for any piece of advice! 
> 
> Emilie 
> 
> ____________________________________________________________ 
> Emilie VANVYVE 
> Physicist, PhD student 
> 
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