Date: Wed Dec 05 2012 - 01:12:03 MST
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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