<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Your output png is enormous. Zoom in and you’ll see the lines. They’re just very thin because they are resolution dependent on the png.</div>In my experience line thickness is dependent on the output format. Lines on a pdf are rarely the same thickness as lines on a png. <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">You’re plotting to a pretty enormous png so the lines are there but very very thin. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""> mpres@mpGridLineThicknessF = 2.5</div><div class=""> mpres@mpUSStateLineThicknessF = 2.5 </div><div class=""> mpres@mpNationalLineThicknessF =2.5</div><div class=""> mpres@mpGeophysicalLineThicknessF = 2.5</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Makes the geographical lines visible with a 7500*7500 resolution png. I’d question whether it really needs to be that big though. </div><div class="">If you make the output a more reasonable resolution (wkWidth = 1500--2000) the lines become more noticeable or scale up your line thicknesses appropriately. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">~Alan</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Feb 20, 2017, at 7:43 AM, Barry Lynn <<a href="mailto:barry.h.lynn@gmail.com" class="">barry.h.lynn@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Hi:<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I appreciate the suggestion.<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I removed the call "frame (wks)," but the map looks the same. When writing png output, the state lines disappear, and the box is hard to see...</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Barry</div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 5:22 AM, Rick Brownrigg <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:brownrig@ucar.edu" target="_blank" class="">brownrig@ucar.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class="">Hi Barry,<br class=""><br class=""></div>I'm not really sure what is going on here, but one thing that stands out is the call to "frame(wks)" at the end of your script. Normally, that is not necessary unless the resources gsnDraw and gsnFrame are set to False (their defaults are True). As you likely know, its a language idiom to set these two resources to False when wanting to overlay additional graphics on top of a plot, and then after all drawing functions have been called, one performs this little idiom:<br class=""><br class=""></div> ....<br class=""></div> draw(plot) <br class=""></div> frame(wks)<br class=""><br class=""></div>Which draws the plot and all overlays and advances the "frame" (page/next-image/etc).<br class=""><br class=""></div>Pure speculation on my part, but perhaps the explicit call to frame(wks) when gsnFrame is already True is the issue (it shouldn't be, but...). Maybe try removing this call? Or add a call to "draw(mp)" just before the "frame(wks)". <br class=""><br class=""></div>Rick<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div class=""><div class="h5">On Sun, Feb 19, 2017 at 12:07 AM, Barry Lynn <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:barry.h.lynn@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">barry.h.lynn@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class=""><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr" class="">Hi:<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">When I plot the namelist.wps as a pdf the station lines appear. When I plot it as a png, they disappear.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Is there a simple fix for this?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks<br clear="all" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div>-- <br class=""><div class="m_1112155299022495663m_180867524452606262gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class="">Barry H. 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