[ncl-talk] Not English city names

[Rick Brownrigg]

Hi Barry,

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.

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:

http://ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/rgbacolor.shtml

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.

Hope that helps, and good luck!
Rick

On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 11:30 PM, Barry Lynn <barry.h.lynn at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi:
>
> 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?
>
> I am not sure how one would get the right sized rectangle, but perhaps
> this is possible as well.
>
> Barry
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 4:23 PM, Mary Haley <haley at ucar.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hi Barry,
>>
>> NCL doesn't have special font tables for foreign languages unfortunately.
>>
>> 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:
>>
>> http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/text.shtml#ex14
>>
>> --Mary
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 1:21 PM, Barry Lynn <barry.h.lynn at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> I do not see anything on-line.
>>>
>>> Can one create a city name in a foreign language?
>>>
>>> If not, can one create a PNG (or like) and overlay it at the correct
>>> location?
>>>
>>> Thank you.
>>>
>>>
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