[gradsusr] Label all contours AND get rid of white rectangle background

[Jennifer M Adams]

Hi, Tracey — 
I agree that the unmasked contour labels with the little white rectangles behind them are ugly and should be avoided. Unfortunately, masked and forced contour labels are mutually exclusive — the rotation of the rectangle complicated the masking code and it we did not take the time to work on it with limited resources and bigger fires to put out. Personally, I don’t really like the look of rotated (forced) contour labels, I find them hard to read. Try shrinking the size of the contour labels and see if that helps. Otherwise you could just label every other contour and that would probalby leave enough room for the non-rotated rectangular masks. 
—Jennifer

> On Dec 18, 2018, at 1:14 PM, Tracey <tdorian10 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Miquel,
> 
> Okay, that explains why it didn't work since I am using v2.0.2 of GrADS.  Again thank you for your suggestion though.  Has anyone ever figured out how to get rid of the white rectangles in version 2.0.2 of GrADS?
> 
> Thank you,
> Tracey
> 
> On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 1:12 PM Miquel Bernis <bernisfeina at gmail.com> wrote:
> It works for me using the 2.1 version of GrADS. I'm sorry I don't know how to help you. 
> 
> Miquel
> 
> Missatge de Tracey <tdorian10 at gmail.com> del dia dt., 18 de des. 2018 a les 18:54:
> Hi Miquel,
> 
> Thank you for your suggestion, however I tried using the "-t" option but it didn't seem to change the original plot.  The contour labels still had the white rectangle background.
> 
> Thanks,
> Tracey
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 12:43 PM Miquel Bernis <bernisfeina at gmail.com> wrote:
> It makes a color transparent, you should try:
> 
> 'printim SSW_diff.gif -t 1 x1600 y1400 white'
> 
> What would make the white color transparent. 
> 
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> Missatge de Tracey <tdorian10 at gmail.com> del dia dt., 18 de des. 2018 a les 18:30:
> Hi Miquel,
> 
> I haven't tried that, what does it do?  I am using printim instead of gxout.  How would I use it with printim?
> 
> 'printim SSW_diff.gif  x1600 y1400 white'
> 
> Thanks,
> Tracey
> 
> On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 11:54 AM Miquel Bernis <bernisfeina at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Tracey,
> 
> Have you tried with the transparency (-t) option when you call gxprint?
> 
> http://cola.gmu.edu/grads/gadoc/gradcomdgxprint.html
> 
> Miquel
> 
> Missatge de Tracey <tdorian10 at gmail.com> del dia dt., 18 de des. 2018 a les 15:53:
> Hi GrADS users,
> 
> In my plot (see attached), I want the contour labels to NOT have the white rectangle behind the numbers.  I see online that I can do this using "set clab masked", but when I do this it does not plot a label for every single contour (set clab forced), which is what I want.  Does anyone know how I can both plot all contours and also get rid of the white rectangle background?
> 
> Thank you,
> Tracey
> 
> 
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Jennifer Miletta Adams
Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies (COLA)
George Mason University