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Re: Contour labels not aligned with contours [message #88539 is a reply to message #88538]

Fri, 09 May 2014 08:32

Sir Loin Steak
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On Friday, 9 May 2014 14:06:15 UTC+1, David Fanning wrote:
> ljs15@fsmail.net writes:
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>> The problem seems to be related to the character size used to label the contour labels. I've done two more test plots, using the code below. The results are here: http://physics.open.ac.uk/~lsteele/contour_test.png
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>> In the first plot I set c_charsize=0.2, while in the second plot I set c_charsize=0.5. As you can see, the labels look ok in the second plot, but are not aligned with the contours in the first plot.
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>> The problem is, I need to produce the eps plot for a journal article, and it needs to be output in the correct size (in this case 2.5 inches square). As such, I have to use small c_charsize values to make the labels legible, and not cover up any shading which is plotted underneath the contours.
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>> Does anyone know of a way around this?
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> If it were me, I would produce the graphic in a normal size, using
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> normal values for character size, etc. Then I would tell the idiots at
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> the journal to get their act together and do some reading up on
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> PostScript files. They can make the damn thing any size they want. Why
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> are the making you do all the work, for God's sake! :-)
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> Cheers,
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> David
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> --
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> David Fanning, Ph.D.
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> Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
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> Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com/
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> Sepore ma de ni thue. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")

That is indeed what I have resorted to doing! (I just doubled the page size, character size etc.) It still seems strange that IDL won't align the labels nicely when using a small c_label size. Ah well!

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		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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