<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Alan et al., <DIV>Those horizontal stripes in the ps/eps output are a real nuisance. Potential sources of the problem start with the contouring algorithm in the GrADS graphics layer, but the presence of the stripes also seem to be influenced by gxps, gxeps, any external or internal utility that converts the .eps or .ps files to something else as they get incorporated into written documents, and the printers used by scientists and publishers also seem to be a factor. My recent experience is that it's nearly impossible to predict whether you'll get stripes or not. It's seems more likely that you'll have stripes than no stripes, and the stripes also seem to be most garish in plots with shaded contours and white space. </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Here at COLA, we've begun using image format files (.png and .gif) instead of vector graphic formats, simply because they're more reliable even though they don't always look as good. </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>COLA users are being weaned from using PCs running MS Windows, but my sense is that the gv32 program allowed for conversion of GrADS metafiles into something else that did not have stripes. I can't verify that, perhaps the windows users out there can confirm or deny. </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Brian is planning to rework the contouring algorithm, so there's hope for the future; unfortunately, that hope doesn't help in the short term. I would see if you can get the publisher to provide a test print of your figures, and if that looks bad, see if you can use an image format instead. A .png at 850x1100 resolution, shrunk down to journal size, might not look so bad. </DIV><DIV> </DIV><DIV>Jennifer </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Feb 8, 2007, at 11:03 AM, Alan Robock wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Dear Friends,</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Has anyone found a solution to the age-old problem of horizontal lines</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">between bands of color in shaded grads output?<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>We have eps files to</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">submit for an accepted JGR paper and are concerned about how the final</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">version will look.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Is there anything we can do to the files before we submit them to fix</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">the problem?</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Alan</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Alan Robock, Professor II</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Department of Environmental Sciences<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Phone: +1-732-932-9478</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Rutgers University<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Fax: +1-732-932-8644</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">14 College Farm Road <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>E-mail: <A href="mailto:robock@envsci.rutgers.edu">robock@envsci.rutgers.edu</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">New Brunswick, NJ 08901-8551<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>USA<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN><A href="http://envsci.rutgers.edu/~robock">http://envsci.rutgers.edu/~robock</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>--</DIV><DIV>Jennifer M. 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