Re: filling the page with panel plots

Hi Rob,

It looks like this was fixed after 5.2.1 was released. I tried it with our 6.0.0 alpha version, and it works fine with newpdf or pdf
(same for newps and ps).

The sizes between the two PDF files are about what you'd expect:

-rw-rw-r-- 1 haley CIT\domain users 5886603 Dec 7 09:07 panel.new.pdf
-rw-rw-r-- 1 haley CIT\domain users 18727745 Dec 7 09:07 panel.old.pdf

PS files are unfortunately larger with the new PS driver:

-rw-rw-r-- 1 haley CIT\domain users 21558655 Dec 7 09:09 panel.new.ps
-rw-rw-r-- 1 haley CIT\domain users 14062170 Dec 7 09:09 panel.old.ps

--Mary

On Dec 3, 2010, at 11:56 AM, Rob Nicholas wrote:

> After a bit of off-list tinkering, Mary and I found that the wide
> margins were due to my use of the "newpdf" graphics driver. We're
> still not sure *why* this is happening, but switching to the older
> "pdf" driver (as in the script attached to Mary's previous message)
> seems to take care of the problem.
>
> Cheers,
> Rob
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 2:17 PM, Mary Haley <haley@ucar.edu> wrote:
>> Rob,
>> Please see the attached panel.ncl file which does something very close to
>> what you're trying to accomplish. I made the PDF file a low-res one so it
>> was smaller. It looks rather fuzzy because of this.
>>
>>
>> --Mary
>> On Dec 2, 2010, at 2:55 PM, ncl-talk-owner@ucar.edu wrote:
>>
>> From: Rob Nicholas <rnicholas@atmos.washington.edu>
>> Date: December 2, 2010 2:55:39 PM MST
>> To: NCL USERS <ncl-talk@ucar.edu>, Mary Haley <haley@ucar.edu>
>> Subject: Re: filling the page with panel plots
>>
>>
>> Attached is an example of what I was trying to describe. For regions
>> that are "less square" (e.g. a 2:1 lon:lat ratio), the problem seems
>> to work itself out -- the panel flips into landscape mode and more or
>> less fills the page. I could fiddle with the
>> "@gsnPanelXWhiteSpacePercent" resource, but what I really want is
>> larger individual plots, not more white space between them.
>>
>> And just to be clear, I haven't been fiddling with the viewport
>> resources, so that shouldn't be the source of the problem. I can
>> provide code if it comes to that, of course.
>>
>> Any idea what might be going on here?
>>
>> ~Rob
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Mary Haley <haley@ucar.edu> wrote:
>>
>> Rob,
>>
>> It would help if you could send a sample PS/PDF file.
>>
>> Setting res@gsnMaximize=True during the gsn_panel call is the proper thing
>>
>> to do.
>>
>> (It doesn't help doing this for the individual plots, because they will get
>>
>> resized anyway
>>
>> in gsn_panel.)
>>
>> You can also try making the space between the plots smaller by setting
>>
>> res@gsnPanelYWhiteSpacePercent and/or res@gsnPanelXWhiteSpacePercent
>>
>> to something less than 1.0 (but greater than 0.0).
>>
>> If this doesn't help, can you send an image?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> --Mary
>>
>> On Dec 2, 2010, at 11:58 AM, Rob Nicholas wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm creating a panel plot of 12 identically-sized maps (4 rows of 3) that
>>
>> I'd like to have fill *most* of the page. I've tried setting "@gsnMaximize
>>
>> = True" for both the individual plot resources and the panel resources, but
>>
>> I'm still ending up with a significant amount of white space (1.5-inch+
>>
>> margins) around the edge.
>>
>> Can anyone suggest a way to get the panel to occupy more of the page?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Rob
>>
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