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>From: "Christian =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Pag=E9?=" <address@hidden> >Organization: UCAR/Unidata >Keywords: 200501241829.j0OITMkE015517 >Institution: UQAM >Package Version: 5.7.3 >Operating System: IRIX64 >Hardware Information: SGI >Inquiry: Hi, > >Is it possible to plot some contour with transparent colorfills with GEMPAK? > >Many thanks, > >Christian Pagé >UQAM Christian, The following fill types are available for contours: FLINE FLINE is the color and fill type to be used for contour fill: colr1;..;colrn/type1;..;typen The number of fill colors and types needed is one greater than the number of fill levels in FINT. The number of fill colors may be entered as a list of color numbers separated by semicolons or a range of colors. The number of fill types may be entered as a list of numbers separated by semicolons. More information on color selection can be found in the help for COLORS. The fill type may be set any of the following values: 1 Solid 2 Slanted Dash 3 Wide-spaced Slanted Line 4 Medium-spaced Slanted Line 5 Zig-Zag Line 6 Dots 7 Thin-spaced Slanted Line If fill type is set to 0, soild fill is used. If the fill type is set to a single negative number, negative values will use the absolute value of the fill type, and positive values will be solid. Steve Chiswell Unidata User Support > > > -- NOTE: All email exchanges with Unidata User Support are recorded in the Unidata inquiry tracking system and then made publicly available through the web. If you do not want to have your interactions made available in this way, you must let us know in each email you send to us.