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

Tracey tdorian10 at gmail.com
Wed Dec 19 09:14:59 EST 2018


Thanks, Jennifer.  For now I will just shrink the contour labels.

--Tracey

On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 7:54 PM Jennifer M Adams <jadams21 at gmu.edu> wrote:

> 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.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > 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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