Hi -
No, you will not be able to upgrade Ferret; there is no more-recent
version for Windows XP. Our current suggestion for people who want
to try it, is to install Unix on their PC and then a modern version
of Ferret under that Unix operating system. There is more
information about that on the Ferret downloads pages.
Try the suggestions in the FAQ for making thicker lines from your
metafile plot. I think that will give you the best black-and-white
image results.
Ansley
On 7/13/2011 7:18 PM, dessy berlianty wrote:
Dear Ansley-san,
Thank you very much for your suggestion.
Now, I try to upgrade my Ferret to v6.7, but actually my OS is
Windows XP, I don't know it is suitable or not to using v6.7.
So, I will send kind of report to this group whether I am failed
or succeed in upgrade my Ferret soon.
And about vector line styles, actually, I will apply black/white
graph, so that's why I have restriction to use color line.
From your suggestion about Fprint, I'll try it eventhough it is
very new begining for me.
Finally, thank you for your kindly help.
Sincerely yours,
dessy
From:
Ansley Manke <ansley.b.manke@xxxxxxxx>
To: dessy
berlianty <dessyberlianty@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc:
"ferret_users@xxxxxxxx"
<oar.pmel.ferret_users@xxxxxxxx>
Sent:
Thursday, July 14, 2011 1:48 AM
Subject:
Re: [ferret_users] vector type and insert small sinusoidal
graph to main graph
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
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