increase the size of color bar

[Sestak, Dr. Michael]

Also, if all your plots use the same colorbar, somewhere in the gradsusr
archive http://list.cineca.it/archives/gradsusr.html there is a thread on
putting one big color bar at the bottom of the page instead of a tiny color
bar on each map.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: GRADSUSR at LIST.CINECA.IT
> [mailto:GRADSUSR at LIST.CINECA.IT]On Behalf
> Of Diane Stokes
> Sent: Friday, January 27, 2006 8:47 AM
> To: GRADSUSR at LIST.CINECA.IT
> Subject: Re: increase the size of color bar
>
>
> Dear Satyaban,
>
> Does the color bar script you are using accept arguments,
> including one
> to change scale factor?  If not grab cbarn.gs from:
>
> ftp://grads.iges.org/grads/scripts/cbarn.gs
>
> Optional argument sf sets the scale factor.  (See documentation at the
> top of the script).  Set "sf" to something larger than 1 (eg, 1.2) to
> increase the size of your color bar. (See other options for fixing the
> location of the bar as well).
>
> If that does not work well enough, you can make a modified version of
> your colorbar script that uses a larger font when drawing the label.
> Details of the change depend on your version of the script.  For the
> currently available version of cbarn.gs, you might try modifying the
> constants in lines:
>
>    strxsiz=0.12*sf
>    strysiz=0.13*sf
>
>      Diane
>
>
> Satyaban wrote:
>
> > Dear Grads User,
> >      I ploted three color bar for three different figures
> in a single
> > page.But this color bar seems to very small and the values
> of color bar
> > also looking very small. How can I enlarge the font size
> and also the size
> > of the color bar.
> >     I would appreciate for your kind help.
> >
> > Regards
> > Satyaban
> >
>
> --
> Diane Stokes
> Environmental Modeling Center
> National Weather Service/NOAA
>