<div dir="ltr">Hi Adam,<div><br></div><div>this was indeed very helpful, thank you! I have been using "convert" from the terminal but wasn´t aware that I could use convert to convert from eps to png, and within the script. Now the plot looks exactly the way I want. </div><div>About the font, I am not using times roman but duplex roman (no .12 from the table). </div><div><br></div><div>Thanks again,</div><div>Anne</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, May 4, 2020 at 9:04 PM Adam Phillips <<a href="mailto:asphilli@ucar.edu">asphilli@ucar.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi Anne,<div>I think you are referring to two different issues. </div><div>1) It looks to me like you are using the old NCL default font (times-roman, skinny text), and what you want to be using is helvetica. You can change your font to helvetica by setting your .hluresfile as documented beneath the font table here:</div><div><a href="https://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Graphics/font_tables.shtml" target="_blank">https://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Graphics/font_tables.shtml</a></div><div><br></div><div>2) You are correct that outputting directly to a png results in lines being a bit thinner (~75% as thin) as opposed to if you output directly to .ps/.eps. For day to day work, I output directly to png. For figures that might go into a paper, I typically output to .eps directly, and then create a png file using convert (Image Magik). That way I know that the png (for submission) and eps (for publication) versions look the same. </div><div>Example:</div><div>wks = gsn_open_wks("eps","figure1")</div><div>; create plot</div><div>delete(wks)</div><div>system("convert -density 144 -trim +repage -background white -border 10 -bordercolor white figure1.eps figure1.png")</div><div>end</div><div>You can alter numerous line thickness resources, but I find the above process easier. </div><div>Hope that helps!</div><div>Adam</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, May 4, 2020 at 10:52 AM Anne via ncl-talk <<a href="mailto:ncl-talk@ucar.edu" target="_blank">ncl-talk@ucar.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hello,<br></div><div><br></div><div>I am trying to get some nice graphics for a publication, which in the end I will save in .ps format, but for the moment I need them in .png format. I noticed my .png graphics tend to appear rather faint (see example attached). I know I can play around with wks_type@wkHeight and wks_type@wkWidth but I noticed that increasing these values makes them even more faint, or having a bad picture quality when using low values. </div><div><br></div><div>I there some universal resource that I missed which makes the perimeter, the title, the labels etc just a hint thicker and clearer?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for any hint!</div><div>Anne</div></div>
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