Re: the default 'outline' text option in ncl graphics

Xiuzhen,

I think I understand what you are talking about. I thought you wanted better quality fonts, which are the filled fonts, but you are right that these are not editable.

Please see:

http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/FAQ/#vis_010

for information about using fonts that I think will give you the editable fonts you need. There are some limitations with these fonts, but hopefully the fact that you need to edit them means you might want to replace or modify them.

--Mary

On Dec 5, 2012, at 12:12 AM, Xiuzhen Ren wrote:

> Dear Mary,
>
> I did a test with the helvetica fonts in my .hluresfile. The version of ncl I'm using is ncl 6.0.0.
>
> But the figure I produced still has the problem of "outline text", as I clicked on the text and it comes up surrounded by anchor points".
>
> I attached my script, the figure produced from this script, and the picture to show the anchor points when I clicked on the text in inkscape.
>
> Thank you very much for your help.
>
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 9:50 AM, Mary Haley <haley@ucar.edu> wrote:
> Dear Xiuzhen,
>
> If you have Version 6.0.0 or earlier of NCL, then the default font is font 0, which you can see here:
>
> http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Graphics/Images/font0.png
>
> This is indeed an outlined font.
>
> If you upgrade to V6.1.0, then the default font will be "helvetica" (font 21) which is a filled font:
>
> http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Graphics/Images/font21.png
>
> To get this font with an earlier version of NCL is easy.
>
> Create a file called ".hluresfile" in your home directory, and put the following line in it:
>
> *Font : helvetica
>
>
> This will give you the helvetica font (or whatever font you want) for *all* text strings in NCL.
>
> There are other things you can put in the ".hluresfile" to customize your NCL environment. See:
>
> http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Graphics/hlures.shtml
>
> --Mary
>
>
>
> On Dec 1, 2012, at 12:01 AM, Xiuzhen Ren wrote:
>
> > Dear NCL users,
> >
> > I got the request from the publisher to provide alternate NCL graphics that all the texts in the NCL graphics are not 'outlined'.
> >
> > The publisher needs to edit some texts from my NCL graphics, but cannot do so because the text are 'outlined', so it is not editable.
> >
> > Here is the detailed description of the problem from the publisher:
> >
> > I am preparing your electronic figures for processing by our department.
> >
> > It appears that your figures contain outlines text. By outlined I mean at some point you may have chosen an 'outline' text option which converts all text from editable lettering to outlined vector images thus making them uneditable. It is also possible the program you used to generate the figures with outlined the text automatically, when saving to PDF you should be able to select that the text remain in an editable state. You could also try eps, ai or postscript (ps.) format.
> >
> > If possible we usually like a version where the text can be edited so we can make our required changes. You can check this by going into the drawing package you used to create the figures and if you have a version that you can re-type the text in when you click on it then that is what we are after. If you click on the text and it comes up surrounded by anchor points and you can't type anything then this means the text has been outlined.
> >
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Xiuzhen
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