Gustafson, William I wrote: We (at last) have some additional support for Ferret to begin in a couple of months. The topic of improving publication-quality graphics is *definitely* on the list.This issue has come up before on this discussion group. Unfortunately, my impression is that the graphics core used by Ferret cannot handle postscript or other "pretty" fonts. This is my biggest complaint with Ferret, although I don't let it stop me from using Ferret. I find it faster to clean up the fonts later in Illustrator than to go through the trouble of writing several hundred lines of code in NCL or IDL when Ferret can do the same thing in a dozen. In reality, I have gotten lazier as I age and value my time more than the prettiness of my graphics and often forgo the effort I used to put into making them "perfect". If the Ferret developers could ever get postscript fonts, or at least something like Helvetica, into Ferret, I could convert a lot more folks in my group to use it. thanks - Steve -Bill ___________________________________________ William I. Gustafson Jr., Ph.D. Scientist ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES AND GLOBAL CHANGE DIVISION Pacific Northwest National Laboratory P.O. 999, MSIN K9-30 Richland, WA 99352 Tel: 509-372-6110 William.Gustafson@xxxxxxx http://www.pnl.gov/atmospheric/staff/staff_info.asp?staff_num=5716 On 3/1/10 2:22 PM, "William S. Kessler" <william.s.kessler@xxxxxxxx> wrote: Interesting. One of the important reasons I use Ferret is because the plots (including fonts) are better-looking than other plotting packages. But if you don't like the Ferret fonts, then I think you are out of luck. You would have to replace them in an external program (Adobe Illustrator). Billy K On Mar 1, 2010, at 12:53 PM, Praveen V K wrote:Greetings to all, Is there any way to get publication quality fonts in Ferret as in other famous plotting applications? I tried most of the fonts available for ferret, but none of them is not as good as others. ------------------------------------------------------------- Praveen V K |