<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">In another post, I pointed to a script for generating the topographic background map. To use this (or any other image) as a background, use the printim command with the -t and -b options: <div><br></div><div>printim -t 0 -b bg.png</div><div><br></div><div>Your transparent color number may be different from 0, this is just an example. </div><div><br></div><div>Unfortunately, there is a bug introduced in 2.0.a5 in the printim code that breaks the background image feature. To fix it, edit gxhpng.c and </div><div>remove line 385 that contains " else { " </div><div>remove line 403 that contains " } "</div><div><br></div><div>Jennifer</div><div><br></div><div><div><br></div><div><br><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Mar 12, 2009, at 2:27 PM, Pablo Romero wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>does anyone have any recipes/techniques for creating map plots with 3D continental relief/topographic features?<br><br>I've seen some other plots created with grads that appear to have land areas with detailed 3D terrain visible.<br>Im not sure how these are created; are they being 'printim'ed with a foreground png image? if so, how would I go about getting this 3D topographic image data?<br><br>P.Romero<br>_________________________________________________________________<br>Windows Live™ Contacts: Organize your contact list.<br><a href="http://windowslive.com/connect/post/marcusatmicrosoft.spaces.live.com-Blog-cns!503D1D86EBB2B53C!2285.entry?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_UGC_Contacts_032009">http://windowslive.com/connect/post/marcusatmicrosoft.spaces.live.com-Blog-cns!503D1D86EBB2B53C!2285.entry?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_UGC_Contacts_032009</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></div></div></div></body></html>