Re: gsnMaximise

From: Madeleine Patterson <madeleine.patterson77_at_nyahnyahspammersnyahnyah>
Date: Thu Jan 19 2012 - 19:09:02 MST

Hi -thanks for your help - I got the plot to fill the page properly in the
end.

Cheers,
M

On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 4:23 AM, Adam Phillips <asphilli@ucar.edu> wrote:

> Hi Madeleine,
> If setting gsnMaximize = True is creating a plot that is too big, and
> you're not happy with the default size of the plot, you can try setting the
> various vp resources:
>
> vpWidthF = 0.8 ; width of the plot (within 0->1)
> vpXF = .1 ; X-axis starting point in NDC coordinates (range
> from 0->1) of left side of plot
> vpHeightF = 0.4 ; height of plot (within 0->1)
> vpYF = 0.9 ; Y-axis starting point in NDC coordinates (range
> from 0->1) of top of plot
>
> Note though that NCL will not change the aspect ratio of your plot unless
> you also set mpShapeMode = "FreeAspect", which most people do not want to
> do.
>
> So, I would suggest you play around with the above resources until you are
> happy with the size of your plot.
> Good luck,
> Adam
>
>
> On 01/12/2012 08:34 AM, Madeleine Patterson wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to re-project a map which I normally plot in CE to
> stereographic, and what I've done seems to work:
>
> res@mpLimitMode = "LatLon"
> res@mpMinLatF = ...
> res@mpMinLonF = ...
> res@mpProjection = "Stereographic"
> res@mpCenterLonF = 0.0
> res@mpCenterLatF = 90.0
>
> But the resulting graph is really small in terms of the size of the map
> in the PDF output file (i.e. only filling a fraction of the whole page)
>
> So I added res@gsnMaximize = "True"
>
> But this make the map fill the page...
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions for what I can try?
>
> Thanks
>
> Madeleine
>
>
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