<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">If I'm not mistaken, a similar problem was just recently discussed. Try your printim command using all lower case letters: change NE to ne. <div>--Jennifer<div><br></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#330000" face="'Abadi MT Condensed'"><div><br></div></font><div><br><div><br><div><div>On Nov 8, 2010, at 1:51 PM, Jeff Chabot wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><h1 style="font-weight: normal;" class="ha"><font size="2">Dear GrADS Users,</font><br></h1><h1 style="font-weight: normal;" class="ha"><font size="2">I have been trying to apply a basemap to my precip/ptype shaded contour products on my personal website for some time now. I have brainstormed and searched the GrADS online documents and have come up with ideas, but they have never worked. My latest idea was to use Google Maps terrain data as a background to the map. I thought it was a good idea, but I discovered that I still cannot resolve the issue in that precip = 0 shows either all white or all black depending on what I choose for the background, covering up my basemap. I really thought the following command would have resolved that issue, but it did not:<br><br>printim precip_NE_1.png png x570 y435 -b NE.png -t 0</font> </h1><h1 style="font-weight: normal;" class="ha"><font size="2">Versions:</font></h1>GrADS: 2.0a9<br>OS: Fedora 13<br>Sample: <a href="http://jeffsweatherservice.com/grads/nam/ptype_NE_2.png">http://jeffsweatherservice.com/grads/nam/ptype_NE_2.png</a><br> <br>I know this can be done because of the example:<br><br><a href="http://wxmaps.org/pix/ez.east.html">http://wxmaps.org/pix/ez.east.html</a><br><br><h1 style="font-weight: normal;" class="ha"><font size="2">Any assistance here would be much appreciated.</font></h1> Sincerely,<br><br><br><font style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" color="#888888">Jeff Chabot<br> Email: <a href="mailto:jsc219@gmail.com" target="_blank">jsc219@gmail.com</a><br>Web: <a href="http://jeffsweatherservice.com/" target="_blank">http://jeffsweatherservice.com</a></font><br><br> _______________________________________________<br>gradsusr mailing list<br><a href="mailto:gradsusr@gradsusr.org">gradsusr@gradsusr.org</a><br>http://gradsusr.org/mailman/listinfo/gradsusr<br></blockquote></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; font-size: 12px; "><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> </div><br></div></div></div></div></body></html>