<div dir="ltr">Hey Dave,<div><div><br></div><div>If you are generating figures as pdfs, you are generating vector-based images that can be easily resized without developing compression artifacts, which essentially eliminates the need to specify a fixed height/width during NCL use.</div><div><br></div><div>The biggest issue you need to pay attention to is the relative ratio of things like labels/titles. For example, you need to be careful that if a figure is to be resized to single-column, the labeling remains legible since *all* image components will be adjusted to size at production (many times, I increase the size of my labels if I know the image will be physically printed small).</div><div><br></div><div>However, generally the "size" of a vector-based image is irrelevant and it is trivial for a copyeditor to resize PDF files to fit whatever space they need to fit during publication, so I do not worry about it when producing these files.</div><div><br></div><div>-Colin</div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 11:05 AM, David Jones <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jonesd647@yahoo.ca" target="_blank">jonesd647@yahoo.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><div dir="ltr">Dear NCL-talk,<br><br>I have to prepare some "publication quality" plots and have been requested to create pdf images in either "single or double column width (88 mm or 170 mm, respectively)". My plots are panel plots.<br><br>Is there a resource that I can apply prior to printing the plot, so that the output width will be as desired? Something like pnlres@plotWidth = 170 , or the equivalent width in inches?<br><br>I've tried using resources such as gsnPaperWidth and wkPaper[Width|Height]F, but as I understand these set the width of the page, rather than that of the image on the page.<br><br>I also tried wkPaperSize = "A4", in combination with pnlres_at_vpWidthF = (170./210.), but this didn't work either. <br><br>Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!<br><br>Best regards,<br>Dave.<br><br><br><br><br></div><div><br></div></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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<br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial;font-size:small">Colin M. Zarzycki, ASP postdoctoral fellow</div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial;font-size:small">Atmospheric Modeling and Predictability<br>National Center for Atmospheric Research<br><a href="http://www.colinzarzycki.com/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">http://www.colinzarzycki.com</a></div></div></div>
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