[gradsusr] Filling entire plot area issue..

[L.B.]

I will take a look at the mpvals. I know you can zoom in by reducing the
lat/lon pairs - guess I should have said I want that full domain plotted :P

*William (L.B.) LaForce*
Meteorologist
Central Michigan University '13
www.tornadoinsanity.com


On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 3:00 PM, Stephen McMillan <smcmillan at planalytics.com
> wrote:

> William,
> You can "zoom in" by reducing the lat and lon ranges before you display
> the variable.  Also, try using 'set mpvals...' (see
> http://grads.iges.org/grads/gadoc/gradcomdsetmpvals.html) to specify
> which areas you wanted included in the plot.
> Stephen Mc
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 2:42 PM, L.B. <bcbass2989 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I have been having an issue of trying to fill the entire plot area.
>> Usually the extra white space is used for text and such, but in my case I
>> want to fill the entire plot area (or most of it) and get rid of as much
>> white space as possible. I have played around with various values for vpage
>> and parea as well as the image size output (so it is NOT distorted), and it
>> just seems to re-scale the image, and not let me fill the entire area.
>> Ideally it would be nice to set your parea>vpage, but that's not possible.
>> I have posted an example image below. I made the background black to show
>> you all the excess space. Now obviously the image is not rectangular, and I
>> have cropped the left and the right side, but how can I get rid of that
>> excess on the top and bottom without using an external utility to crop it
>> after the fact?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> *William (L.B.) LaForce*
>> Meteorologist
>> Central Michigan University '13
>> www.tornadoinsanity.com
>>
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