[ncl-talk] Reduce white space in the plot

[Debasish Hazra]

Many thanks Mary. It worked.

Debasish.

On Sun, Sep 27, 2015 at 7:35 PM, Mary Haley <haley at ucar.edu> wrote:

> Debasish,
>
> Since you chose a 2 x 4 (2 rows by 4 columns) configuration for your plot,
> you are pretty much taking up all the possible space in the width that you
> have available.
>
> There are a few ways to make your plots bigger:
>
>    - You are using a size of 2500 x 2500 for your PNG, which is a good
>    size.  You can trim the white space by calling "convert -trim" on the PNG
>    after the panel plot has been drawn.  You need to add this code at the end
>    of your script, before the "end" statement, but after the "frame" call:
>
>
>    - Set gsnPanelYWhiteSpacePercent / gsnPanelXWhiteSpacePercent to
>    something smaller than 4.  If you use a value of 0, then your plots will
>    almost be touching. I used a value of 1.0
>
>    - Use a configuration other than 2 x 4, like 4 x 2, or even 3 x 3, if
>    you don't mind having 2 rows of 3 plots, and then 1 row with 2 plots. But,
>    if you do this, I suggest not moving the labelbar so far away from the
>    paneled plots, because then you are decreasing the amount of space for
>    where you can put the plots. In general, I suggest not setting the
>    gsnPanelBottom/Top/Left/Right resources, unless you need to for other
>    reasons, like doing multiple panels on one page.
>
> delete(wks)
> system("convert -trim Test_wspace.png Test_wspace.trim.png")
>
> See the modified script and attached PNG images (both non-trimmed and
> trimmed), which I generated by using a value of 1.0 for the
> "WhiteSpacePercent" resources, and by doing a "convert -trim" after the
> image was created. I did both a 2 x 4 and a 4 x 2 configuration.  I also
> removed the white space before the labelbar, but you don't need to do this.
>
>
> --Mary
>
>
>
> On Sat, Sep 26, 2015 at 3:12 PM, Debasish Hazra <debasish.hazra5 at gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>>   I am trying to plot a panel plot with 8 figures. However, it seems the
>> final plot shows lot of white spaces and figure sizes are small. Is there
>> any way I can increase the sizes of the each figure to cover more part of
>> the panel ? Attached is the code and the resulted figure.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Debasish.
>>
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