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20050121: color catastrophe

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  • Subject: 20050121: color catastrophe
  • Date: 25 Jan 2005 16:15:22 -0700
Patrick,


The most versatile program for adding labels etc to a plot would
be gpanot (though you could use gptext and/or gpmap as well).

In gpanot, I'd think you'd use SHAPE=TEXT, then specify the border 
parameter of the text in the INFO parameter to be something like /211/
for creating a lined box with background fill.

For other things like branding with a home logo, in the past I created a
gif combined it with something like Imagemagick's "combine" program.


Steve Chiswell
Unidta User Support



On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 10:57, Patrick L. Francis wrote:
> chiz..
> 
> ignore previous error message.. i fingered it out
> 
> http://weather.bgsu.edu/data/models/gfs/2m/
> 
> is there a way to make the maps look aesthetically better?
> 
> meaning, if i put the title on the top, it is not clearly readable
> because maps / contours will be beneath it... i can't seem
> to find a way in the docs to say.. put a box around the graphics
> with the title above on a blank bar.. the way it is now a user
> has to scroll down during a loop/rock to see the appropriate
> timestamp.
> 
> tyvm
> 
> --patridck