meta file size

[Jennifer Adams]

Did you get an "out of buffer space" message when drawing the plot? You
can try firing up grads with the "-m NNN" option, which sets the
metafile buffer size. Default value is 1000000.
Jennifer
On Feb 28, 2006, at 1:41 AM, Boyin Huang wrote:

> When I plotted a T-S diagram, the meta file is very large(50MB). When
> this
> large meta file was transferred into a ps or gif file and viewed by
> ghostview, I found part of the file was missing (Say, it should contain
> 1000 scattered dots as shown in the grads display window but only 900
> was
> showen up), and the ps file size reached 120MB.
>
> What caused the problem?
> Is this because the grads set a file size limit?
> Is there any way to fix the problem?
>
> Thanks
>
>
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Jennifer Miletta Adams
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