Re: Transparent Background

From: Carl Schreck <carl_at_nyahnyahspammersnyahnyah>
Date: Wed Mar 28 2012 - 10:34:14 MDT

No change. Thanks for the suggestion though...

   Carl

On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Dennis Shea <shea@ucar.edu> wrote:

> Yes ... ImageMagick did chane something. Try
>
> convert -flatten -trim +repage -density 150 -background white genisis.psgenisis.png
>
> Good Luck
>
>
> On 3/28/12 10:08 AM, Carl Schreck wrote:
>
>> I recently had to upgrade imageMagick to the latest version, and I've
>> been having some strange results converting NCL-made eps files to png.
>> See the attached file. It looks almost ok, but the background is
>> transparent instead of white. It doesn't show up in this example, but if
>> I had done shaded contours, that shading would be white. Anything
>> outside of the plot would still be transparent though.
>>
>> This could probably be addressed on either the NCL side or the
>> imageMagick side, but I'm stumped on both sides. Any suggestions?
>>
>> I am using imageMagick 6.7.6 and NCL 6.0.0. I do the conversion as
>> "convert -trim +repage -density 150 genesis.eps genesis.png"
>>
>> My .hluresfile has these lines:
>> ! White background/black foreground
>> *wkForegroundColor : (/0.,0.,0./)
>> *wkBackgroundColor : (/1.,1.,1./)
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Carl
>>
>> --
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>> Postdoctoral Research Associate
>> Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites (CICS-NC)
>> North Carolina State University and NOAA's National Climatic Data Center
>> 151 Patton Avenue
>> Asheville, NC 28801
>> Tel: 828-257-3140
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Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites (CICS-NC)
North Carolina State University and NOAA's National Climatic Data Center
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Asheville, NC 28801
Tel: 828-257-3140
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