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Re: plot axis colors [message #17485 is a reply to message #17484] Thu, 21 October 1999 00:00 Go to previous message
Pavel Romashkin is currently offline  Pavel Romashkin
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Registered: April 1999
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Use COLOR=x and BACKGROUND=y when you issue your plotting commands. If you are
plotting to an indexed-color device and the number of available colors varies,
you may find that colors change on your plots. However, you will always see the
axes as long as X ne Y.

Cheers,
Pavel

Dave Avis wrote:

> When using colortables (the built-in ones) with a plot, sometimes the axis
> color causes the axis and labels to disappear. I figure that it is because
> the axis and the labels are set to a particular element of the color table
> and that element is the same color as the background color of the plot
> window. How would I go about changing this without editing the color table?
> If I have to edit the color table, which element is the one that the axis
> and labels use, or how can I find out? I have this problem on the color
> table named either "prism" or "spectrum" (sorry, don't remember the number
> offhand).
>
> Dave
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