[ncl-talk] reducing margins panelplots

[Mary Haley]

Oops, here are the two scripts, attached.

--Mary


On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 9:45 AM, Mary Haley <haley at ucar.edu> wrote:

> Noelia,
>
> There are many ways to increase the size of each paneled plot.
>
> [1] Set the panel resources "gsnPanelYWhiteSpacePercent" and/or
> "gsnPanelYWhiteSpacePercent" to something smaller than 5, but larger than
> 0. This sets the percentage of white space between each plot, based on the
> width and height of the frame. The default is 5%.  Setting these to 0 will
> make your plots almost touch.
>
> [2] Use a different configuration of plots, instead of 7 rows and 2
> columns.  You could try 4 rows and 4 columns, which will give you one row
> with fewer plots, but they will all be larger.
>
> [3] Don't set gsnPanelBottom or else set it to something smaller than
> 0.06.  I think by setting it to 0.06 you are actually increasing the amount
> of white space for the labelbar, which decreases the white space for the
> plot area, hence making the plots smaller.
>
> [4] Turn off tickmarks and/and or tickmark labels for the inside sides of
> the plots, giving the plots room to grow a little. If you do this, you will
> likely need to set gsnPanelScalePlotIndex to be something other than plot
> #0. This tells gsn_panel which plot to base all the scaling on, and you
> usually want this to be one of your smaller plots.
>
> I've attached a couple of scripts, based on "panel_28.ncl" on our panel
> examples page:
>
> http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/panel.shtml#ex28
>
> (which I mostly used just to generate some dummy plots).
>
> The panel_28_orig.ncl script is very close to the script you attached,
> except it uses dummy data.  I added a second call to panel the plots using
> a 4x4 PNG, which I attached.
>
> The panel_28_ticks.ncl script is the same script, but with some tickmarks
> turned off, and more customization of the paneled plots, in order to make
> them larger.  I've attached an image from this as well.
>
> --Mary
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 8:47 AM, Noelia otero <noeli1680 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am trying to make some plots by using gsn_panel. My question is, how
>> can I get the plots bigger? I have been looking at several examples and I
>> am already using the option gsnMaximize, however, when I check the pdf
>> file, it looks like too small..(I would like to reduce the margins and make
>> bigger every plot). I am not sure what is best way.
>> I would like to attach the plot that I got and the script I'm using.
>>
>> Many thanks in advance,
>>
>> cheers,
>>
>> Noelia
>>
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