<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Nov 5, 2013, at 1:38 PM, Scott Weaver - NOAA Federal wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div>Greetings,<br><br></div>I am creating plots with shading and recently noticed that the plots do not look as crisp as they once did. In this example I am using Grads version 2.0.1. Is there a new convention to make plots? I used to do something like this but now my figures look like a chess board<br>
<br></div>enable print figure.gmf<br></div>print<br></div>disable print<br></div>!gxeps -c figure.gmf -o figure.eps</div></blockquote>This set of command produces a vector graphic, which should not suffer from resolution issues -- it may be more of a problem with the tool you are using to display it on screen. If you send figure.eps to a printer and it looks funny, then there is something wrong. </div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>so I tried simply using the printim command but as I've said the figures look very low res. Is there something new that I am missing? </div></div></blockquote><div>If you want a high res image with printim, there are options to control the size, something like this:</div><div>ga-> printim test.png x2048 y1536 </div><div><br></div><div>--Jennifer</div><div><br></div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div> Thanks for your help.<br></div></div></blockquote><br><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div>
<br>Scott<br></div><div><br> <br clear="all"><div><div><div><div><div><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr">Scott J. Weaver<br>Research Meteorologist<br>NOAA Climate Prediction Center<br>301-683-3434<br><a href="http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/" target="_blank">http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/</a></div>
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