<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Is that the wkstype? <div><br></div><div> i.e. <br><div>setenv WKSTYPE = oldpdf<br><div>wkstype = getenv("WKSTYPE”)<br><br></div><div>-Jonathan</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><div>On Dec 3, 2014, at 6:07 PM, Rick Brownrigg <<a href="mailto:brownrig@ucar.edu">brownrig@ucar.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div>Ah...in that case, until your admins upgrade the cluster, you might try using "oldpdf" as the workstation type (assuming you are not using other advanced color features --- i.e., sticking with the traditional workstation colormap, etc).<br><br></div>Hope that helps...<br>Rick<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 4:02 PM, jbuzan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jbuzan@purdue.edu" target="_blank">jbuzan@purdue.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Hi Rick,<div><br></div><div>I never specified anything about the background in my scripts. However, when the cluster switched to NCL6, I lost the transparency for the backgrounds of pdf figures. </div><div>I’ll ask my cluster about NCL6.2.1. </div><div><br></div><div>-Jonathan</div><div><div class="h5"><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Dec 3, 2014, at 5:32 PM, Rick Brownrigg <<a href="mailto:brownrig@ucar.edu" target="_blank">brownrig@ucar.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><br>OK, your script fragment looks good However, based upon the times at which wkBackgroundOpacity was implemented versus the dates of NCL release, it looks like this resource would have been first made broadly available in 6.2.0. 6.2.1 is the most recent NCL version. Is it possible for you to upgrade? <br><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">And given that, I'm not sure what would have changed between 5.x.x and 6.1.x that made transparent backgrounds unattainable (how did you specify that?)<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Rick<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 3:16 PM, jbuzan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jbuzan@purdue.edu" target="_blank">jbuzan@purdue.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">I’m using NCL6.1.0.<div><br></div><div>I call the wkstype as a environment variable:</div><div>wkstype = getenv("WKSTYPE”)</div><div>wkstype@wkBackgroundOpacityF = 0.0<br>wks = gsn_open_wks(wkstype, outputfile)<br><br></div><div>warning:wkBackgroundOpacityF is not a resource in the given object<br><br></div><div>-Jonathan</div><div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Dec 3, 2014, at 4:13 PM, Rick Brownrigg <<a href="mailto:brownrig@ucar.edu" target="_blank">brownrig@ucar.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div>Hi Jonathan,<br><br></div>Just to be clear, wk* resources are passed into the workstation at the time it is created:<br><br></div> wkstype = "pdf"<br></div> wkstype@wkBackgroundOpacityF = 0.0<br></div> wks = gsn_open_wks(wkstype, "myPlotName")<br><br></div>Is that what you've tried? I also forget when this resource was introduced, but its a relatively new feature, so the latest NCL version may be needed.<br><br></div>Rick<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 1:00 PM, jbuzan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jbuzan@purdue.edu" target="_blank">jbuzan@purdue.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hello NCL-talk,<br>
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I am attempting to make the background on my plots transparent. However, I believe I am using the wrong resource.<br>
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res@cnMissingValFillPattern = “transparent”<br>
wkstype@wkBackgroundOpacityF = 0.0<br>
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both give me warnings and do not make the background transparent.<br>
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I used to be able to have backgrounds transparent in NCL 5. NCL 6 does not have this feature (or at least it is not default).<br>
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-Jonathan<br>
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