[gradsusr] Grads plot size

[Arlindo da Silva]

On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 2:55 PM, Thomas Robinson <ter at hawaii.edu> wrote:

> Aloha Giovanni,
>
> Instead of using printim, you can save the file as metadata and used
> convert it however you want.  In GrADS, after you plot the data, do:
> ga> enable print metaout
> ga> print metaout
> ga> quit
>
> Then use gxps to convert the metaout file to a postscript file.  gxps
> should be in your grads/bin folder where the grads program is:
> gxps -c -r -i metaout -o metaout.ps
>
> Now you can use convert to convert the file to .jpg or whatever
> convert -size 700x1000 metaout.ps YourImage.jpg
>
>
>
This used to be the standard way of creating images sometime ago but it is
no longer recommended. For one, it is very slow, and if doing the classic
shaded contours, it creates some artifacts (like annoying horizontal
likes).


-- 
Arlindo da Silva
*dasilva at alum.mit.edu*
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