[gradsusr] Filling entire plot area issue..

[L.B.]

Hmmm, yeah I got frustrated trying to do the same. It seems you must use a
polar stereographic projection to use mpvals - which I didnt particularly
care for. Maybe this is something that can be fixed with the next version
of GrADS. Somehow redo the drawing system, or allow you to crop.

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


On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 3:21 PM, Jeff Duda <jeffduda319 at gmail.com> wrote:

> L.B.,
> I agree with Stephen's suggestions.  I have played around with the mpvals
> function to make my own forecast graphics.  An example is on my forecast
> graphics page (
> http://www.meteor.iastate.edu/~jdduda/forecast/loop_NAM_CONUS.htm?param=full_500mb&cycle=18Z).
> Unfortunately, I do not know the projections well enough to know exactly
> what values to use to get the entire domain in the frame.  I got frustrated
> and gave up after getting the best look, which is being used to make the
> graphics in the link.  Maybe you'll have better luck than me.
>
> Jeff
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 2:16 PM, L.B. <bcbass2989 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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