<div dir="ltr">Hi:<div><br></div><div>Thank you for your suggestion.</div><div><br></div><div>Barry</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 6, 2017 at 4:32 PM, Rick Brownrigg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brownrig@ucar.edu" target="_blank">brownrig@ucar.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div>Hi Barry,<br><br></div>If its for a few one-off plots, you'd probably have better luck using a graphic-arts tool in post-processing (e.g., gimp) to paste in your city names.<br><br></div>If its for production plotting, then its likely possible to do what you need, but it would take a great deal of experimentation and specialized techniques. Examples 9 and 11 at the following link show how to incorporated imagery into a plot:<br><br><a href="http://ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/rgbacolor.shtml" target="_blank">http://ncl.ucar.edu/<wbr>Applications/rgbacolor.shtml</a><br><br></div>Note that a crucial step in these examples is converting whatever image format you are using into NetCDF. Rather than mess with individual PNGs for each city/location, I would be inclined to come up with a single PNG that is a base map for my region of interest and try to georeference that, as per example 11. <br><br></div>Hope that helps, and good luck!<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">Rick<br> </font></span></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 11:30 PM, Barry Lynn <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:barry.h.lynn@gmail.com" target="_blank">barry.h.lynn@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi:<div><br></div><div>Would it be possible to previously make png rectangles with the name inside, and overlay it on the map, like we do regular city names?</div><div><br></div><div>I am not sure how one would get the right sized rectangle, but perhaps this is possible as well.</div><div><br></div><div>Barry</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 4:23 PM, Mary Haley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:haley@ucar.edu" target="_blank">haley@ucar.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Hi Barry,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">NCL doesn't have special font tables for foreign languages unfortunately.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Mateus da Silva Teixeira from IPMet provided a nice example for creating words with special characters, however, like the umlaut. Please see example text_14.ncl:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><a href="http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/text.shtml#ex14" target="_blank">http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applic<wbr>ations/text.shtml#ex14</a><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">--Mary</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="m_-7287087581968290488m_-9021740686751733396h5">On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 1:21 PM, Barry Lynn <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:barry.h.lynn@gmail.com" target="_blank">barry.h.lynn@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="m_-7287087581968290488m_-9021740686751733396h5">Hi<div><br></div><div>I do not see anything on-line.</div><div><br></div><div>Can one create a city name in a foreign language?</div><div><br></div><div>If not, can one create a PNG (or like) and overlay it at the correct location?</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you.</div><br><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr">Barry H. 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