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Re: Contour labels not aligned with contours [message #88530 is a reply to message #88529]

Thu, 08 May 2014 12:23

David Fanning
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ljs15@fsmail.net writes:

> Has anyone encountered a problem before where the contour labels are not aligned with the spaces left in the actual contours? It has been happening to me for the past few weeks, but I can't think that anything has changed with my system.
>
> The problem only occurs when outputting to a postscript file which has different x and y lengths. I've put a couple of examples here: http://physics.open.ac.uk/~lsteele/contour_label.png
>
> As can be seen in the top plot, the labels on the vertical line sections aren't centered on the contour as they are in the bottom plot. Does anyone know if this can be amended?

I think you had something else going on when you created the top figure.
Try exiting IDL (or doing a .reset), then running the code again.

Let us know. :-)

Cheers,

David

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[Message index]

		Contour labels not aligned with contours By: Sir Loin Steak on Thu, 08 May 2014 11:58
		Re: Contour labels not aligned with contours By: David Fanning on Thu, 08 May 2014 12:23
		Re: Contour labels not aligned with contours By: Sir Loin Steak on Thu, 08 May 2014 13:19
		Re: Contour labels not aligned with contours By: David Fanning on Thu, 08 May 2014 13:51
		Re: Contour labels not aligned with contours By: Sir Loin Steak on Fri, 09 May 2014 02:19
		Re: Contour labels not aligned with contours By: Sir Loin Steak on Fri, 09 May 2014 02:21
		Re: Contour labels not aligned with contours By: David Fanning on Fri, 09 May 2014 06:06
		Re: Contour labels not aligned with contours By: Sir Loin Steak on Fri, 09 May 2014 08:32

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