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RE: lines thickness in PostScript file
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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