Re: [ferret_users] Re: [Ferret_users] : increase font size on ticklabels

["William S. Kessler" <William.S.Kessler@xxxxxxxx>]

The question of line thickness for postscript/pdf is completely  
separate than for gif output. The standard thicknesses are usually  
right for gif plot axes/labels, though you might want to use the  
thicker lines for plot curves (PLOT/LINE=7). However, for publication  
and printing postscript/pdf, these lines are not usually thick  
enough. It is quite straightforward to make simple edits in the  
postscript out of Fprint, most particularly to increase the line  
weights. I have posted information on this in the past; try searching  
the archives for "line weight postscript" (search "all of the words")  
to find instructions on how to do this, including a (unix) script  
that makes the change automatically. It is possible to produce any  
line thickness, even beyond pen widths 13-18.

Billy K

On Feb 13, 2006, at 7:55 AM, Hein Zelle wrote:

> Ansley Manke wrote:
>
>
> > In general, we don't have a real ability to change to bold.  The
> > fonts are pretty limited, but there is one thing you can try.  It
> > doesn't always look too good, but it might improve some plots:
> >
> > PPL PEN,0,7 ! changes the pen used for all the labels and axis lines
> > to pen 7, the "thick" pen.
> >
> > This setting persists on all your plots until you change it.
> That works pretty well, I've had the following script in use for
> publication plots quite some time now, put it somewhere in the  
> ferret path:
>
> ~/files/ferret/thick.jnl
>
> ! use thick lines for everything
> ppl pen 0,13
> ppl pen 1,13
> ppl pen 2,14
> ppl pen 3,15
> ppl pen 4,16
> ppl pen 5,17
> ppl pen 6,18
>
> When making a print-quality plot I just
>
> fill /set_up ...
> go thick
> ppl fill
>
> and just about all lines end up thick enough for printing.
>
> Regards,
>
>     Hein Zelle
>
> --
>
>  Unix is user friendly. It's just very particular about who
>  it's friends are.
>
>  Hein Zelle                     hein@icce.rug.nl
>                             http://www.icce.rug.nl/~hein