<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Feb 24, 2009, at 11:37 AM, Bernd Becker wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>This is sooo nice!<br><br><br><br>After creating a nice image as described below:<br>On Thu, 2009-02-19 at 09:32 -0500, Jennifer Adams wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">'set parea 0 11 0 8.5'<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">'set grid off'<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">'set mproj scaled'<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">'set x 0.5 720.5'<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">'set y 0.5 381.5'<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">'set mpdraw off'<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">'set grads off'<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">'d variable'<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">'printim wibble.tiff gif white x720 y381'</blockquote></div></blockquote><div>This is not good syntax. You'll have a GIF File with a ".tiff" extension. Use this instead:</div><div>'printim wibble.gif white x720 y381'</div><div><br></div><div>From the printim documentation:</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16px; "><ul>If the filename ends with ".png" or ".PNG" then GrADS will automatically create the image in PNG format<br>If the filename ends with ".gif" or ".GIF" then GrADS will automatically create the image in GIF format<br>If the filename ends with ".jpg" or ".JPG" then GrADS will automatically create the image in JPEG format<br></ul><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><div>Remember that the printim image has to have the same aspect ratio as the data grid for it to display properly with the KML file.</div><div><br></div></span></font></div></span></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><br>how would one make the wibble.kml file?</div></blockquote><div>'set kml wibble'</div><div>'set gxout kml' </div><div>'d variable'</div><div><br></div><div>This gives you two files: wibble.tif and wibble.kml. </div><div>You can then edit wibble.kml and change the name of the image file in the <href> tag to whatever you created with printim.</div><div><br></div><div>Jennifer</div><div><br></div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><br><br>Thanks very much.<br>Bernd.<br><br>--<br>Bernd Becker The Monthly Outlook<br>Met Office FitzRoy Road Exeter Devon EX1 3PB United Kingdom<br>Tel.: +44 (0) 1392 884511 Fax: +44 (0)870 900 5050<br>E-mail:bernd.becker@metoffice.com - <a href="http://www.metoffice.com">http://www.metoffice.com</a><br></div></blockquote></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <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 style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><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. Adams</div><div>IGES/COLA</div><div>4041 Powder Mill Road, Suite 302</div><div>Calverton, MD 20705</div><div><a href="mailto:jma@cola.iges.org">jma@cola.iges.org</a></div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span></span></div></span> </div><br></body></html>