[ncl-talk] graphics quality of panelled plot

Anne anne.seidenglanz at unive.it
Mon Feb 11 09:18:21 MST 2019


Hi Rick,

thanks for you advice, I made the mistake that I had set

     wks_type at wkWidth = 2500
    wks_type at wkHeight = 2500

 after I defined the workstation, so it didn't take effect... so this way
it works completely fine.

thanks again,
Anne

On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 3:29 PM Rick Brownrigg <brownrig at ucar.edu> wrote:

> HI Anne,
>
> Can you post an example of what you are seeing?
>
> I would not expect "convert" to improve the appearance. I forget what
> NCL's default image resolution is, but you can override that by doing
> something like:
>
>      wks_type  = "png
>      wks_type at wkWidth = 2500
>     wks_type at wkHeight = 2500
>     wks = gsn_open(wks_type, "myPlot")
>
> Rick
>
> On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 6:02 AM Anne <anne.seidenglanz at unive.it> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have the problem is that when I produce a panel plot in png, the
>> quality is rather bad, while when I produce a single plot also with png and
>> the same settings, the quality is definitely acceptable. Does anybody know
>> why?
>> I tried convert -geometry 2500x2500 -density 600 (even higher numbers)
>> with this panel plot, but the quality remains poor. I also tried saving in
>> eps vectorial format, but the same bad quality results.
>>
>> Any hints are appreciated!
>> thanks,
>> Anne
>>
>>
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