Re: text is fuzzy

Mary & Dave -

Thanks for your answer!

The "Smooth text and line art" on preview was already checked (bummer). But
good call, when I unchecked it to see the results, the text that wasn't
fuzzy became fuzzy.

On Adobe I found the same fuzziness happens. When printing it does
disappear, which is great. But when putting it on pdf documents/reports it
is still there, so I'm trying to find a way out of that so my digital
reports look nicer.

If still needed, here goes the whole pdf and script. I am not setting the
quality since I found out that high is the standard. Just in case, my
.hluresfile looks like this (pretty standard):

!=========================================
! This is a sample .hluresfile. It should
! go in your home directory.
!
! Comments for ".res" files are preceded by a "!".
! Remember quotations are not used in .res files.

! White background/black foreground
*wkForegroundColor : (/0.,0.,0./)
*wkBackgroundColor : (/1.,1.,1./)

! Have a favorite colormap that you use for everything? You can
! make it your default here (note the name is NOT in quotes).
!
! For all available color maps, see
! http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Graphics/color_table_gallery.shtml
 *wkColorMap : WhiteBlueGreenYellowRed

! Font
*Font : helvetica

! Function Codes [Default is a colon]
*TextFuncCode : ~

! Make default X11 window larger (adjust as necessary)
*wkWidth : 800
*wkHeight : 800

! Increase the default (16mb) contour memory
! For example, if you have gridded data that
! is larger than 500 x 500, you may need this.
*wsMaximumSize: 32556688
!==========================================

Thank you so much!!!
Paula

On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 2:41 PM, Mary Haley <haley@ucar.edu> wrote:

> Hi Paula,
>
> It would help if we could see the whole PDF file and even the script.
>
> How are you setting the fonts and the quality?
>
> You really shouldn't need to set the quality, especially if you are using
> the helvetica or helvetica-bold font.
>
> Also, there shouldn't be a difference in the tickmark fonts whether you
> are doing XY or contour plots, so the problem must be somewhere else.
> Are you setting extra resources in your .hluresfile that might affect the
> fonts or the quality?
>
> --Mary
>
> On Nov 23, 2011, at 2:46 PM, Paula Doubrawa Moreira wrote:
>
> Hey all-
>
> does anyone else also have a problem with the quality of text in their xy
> plots? An example of this is attached. The text added with gsn_text_ndc has
> a super good quality, while the title and axis label are fuzzy.
>
> For both "pdf" and "ps" workstations, the plot has an awesome super high
> quality, and the text (title and tickmark labels) is somewhat fuzzy, does
> not look very good. I've tried different fonts but it doesn't help. The
> quality is already set to high, which is the default. This only happens in
> my xy plots. The contour plots have high quality text in the title/tickmark
> labels.
>
> Any hints?
> Thanks,
>
>
>
> --
> *Paula Doubrawa Moreira**
> *Graduate Student - Research Assistant
> International Arctic Research Center
> University of Alaska Fairbanks
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*Graduate Student - Research Assistant
International Arctic Research Center
University of Alaska Fairbanks

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