Re: [ferret_users] how to get the thicker box line?

[ferret ocean <ferretocean@xxxxxxxxx>]

thanks to Jaison and Emilie for your quick reply. Jaison gave us detail information and it works well.
 
 Dawn

Jaison Kurian <jaison@caos.iisc.ernet.in> wrote:
>  Hi,
>      You have to use "PPL PEN 0, 7" before the plot to get thick
> axes and axes labels. If you are not satisfied with the thickness
> of lines in PS/EPS file, you can manually increase the thickness
> as shown below.
>
>  1) increasing thickness of AXES LINES and LABELS on PLOT
>
>        use levitus_climatology
>        set reg/k=1/x=30:120/y=-30:30
>        sp rm -f metafile* ; set mode meta
>        PPL PEN 0, 7                       ! Make it THICK
>        fill/lev=(18,30,0.5) temp
>        go land 7
>
>     The fill command will not give you a thick outer box for the 
>     color key. If you need it, then
>
>       define
>  view/xlim=0:1/ylim=0:1 v1
>       define view/xlim=0:1/ylim=0:1 v2
>       PPL PEN 0, 7
>       set view v1 ; ppl axset 1,1,1,1 
>          fill/lev=(18,30,0.5)/nokey temp  ! use the same LEVELS for
>       set view v2 ; ppl axset 0,0,0,0     !    shade command below 
>          shade/lev=(18,30,0.5)/nolab temp*0+100 ! make all temp. values 
>                                                 !   out of "LEVELS"
>          go land 7
>
>  2) Increasing thickness in PS/EPS output
>
>     In Ferret, 
>
>        set mode metafile
>        ..................
>        ! make the plot and then
>
>        cancel mode meta ; ppl clsplt
>        sp Fprint -l cps -R -o d1.ps metafile.plt
>        sp sed -e 's/2.000000 lw/6.000000 lw/g' d1.ps > test.ps
>        sp rm -f metafile.plt d1.ps   
>        sp ps2epsi test.ps test.eps        
>        
>      Here in d1.ps the thickness "2" is incresed to "6". Normally it
>      will give nice thick lines. If
>  you want you can increase it even
>      more.
>
>  Also see these mails in the archive, send earlier by Billy
>
>  1) http://ferret.pmel.noaa.gov/Ferret/Mail_Archives/fu_2002/msg00333.html
>  2) http://www.ferret.noaa.gov/Ferret/Mail_Archives/fu_2005/msg00474.html
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Jaison
>
> On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, ferret ocean wrote:
>
> > hi, ferreters
> > 
> >    When I output the figures to .eps and insert it to
> > the presentation file, found that the box line
> > (including x axis, y axis, top and right line) is
> > sometimes too light to see. I could not find any
> > command to make the box line thicker. Do you have some
> > idea? Any help will be appreciated.
> > 
> > Dawn
> > 
> > 
> > 
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