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  • Ferret Users Guide
    • Users Guide Index
    • Commands Reference
    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. Data Set Basics
    • 3. Variables & Expressions
    • 4. Grids & Regions
    • 5. Animations & Gif Images
    • 6. Customizing Plots
    • 7. Handling String Data Symbols
    • 8. Working with Special Data Sets
    • 9. Computing Environment
    • 10. Converting to NetCDF
    • 11. Writing External Functions
    • Glossary
    • Appendix A: Functions
    • Appendix B: PPLUS Guide
    • Appendix C: Ferret-Specific PPLUS Enhancements
  • Previous Release Notes
  • Tutorials and Demos
    • Ferret Tour
    • DSG files: Discrete Sampling Geometries Demo
    • Ferret sorting demo
    • Fast Fourier Transforms demo
    • Empirical Orthogonal Functions demo
    • Ferret objective analysis demo
    • Ferret Palette Demo
    • Map projections
    • Ferret polygon vector demo
    • Ferret Graticules demo
    • Ferret Polytube Demo
    • Ferret Polymark Demo
    • Ferret Constant-Array demo
    • Ferret land_detail demo
    • COADS Tour
    • Levitus Tour
    • Use OPeNDAP
    • Ferret binary read demo
  • PyFerret
    • PyFerret Downloads and Install ../../faq/ferret-faqs.html
    • What is PyFerret?
    • Why use PyFerret?
    • PyFerret for the Ferret user
    • PyFerret command syntax: quick-start notes
    • PyFerret for the Python user
    • Graphics in PyFerret ?
    • New Ferret functionality
    • PyFerret Python functions and constants
    • PyFerret Python objects and methods
    • Ferret external functions in Python
    • Ferret Fortran external functions
    • PyFerret metadata-and-data dictionaries
  • OPeNDAP
    • OPeNDAP usage in Ferret
    • Use OPeNDAP Demo
    • Test OPeNDAP

6. Customizing Plots

  • 6.1 OVERVIEW
  • 6.2 GRAPHICAL OUTPUT
    • Ferret graphical output controls
    • PPLUS graphical output commands
  • 6.3 AXES
    • Ferret axis formatting
    • PPLUS axis commands
    • Overlaying symbols on a time axis
  • 6.4 LABELS
    • Adding labels
    • Listing labels
    • Removing movable labels
    • Axis labels and title
    • Ferret label controls
    • PPLUS label commands
    • Positioning labels relative to other plot elements
    • Positioning labels using the mouse pointer
    • Labeling details with arrows and text
  • 6.5 COLOR
    • Text and line colors2
      • Ferret color controls for lines
      • PPLUS text and line color commands
    • Shade and fill colors
      • Ferret shade and fill color controls
      • PPLUS shade color commands
  • 6.6 FONTS
    • Ferret font and text color
    • PPLUS font and text color commands
  • 6.7 PLOT LAYOUT
    • Ferret layout controls
      • Viewports
      • Pre-defined viewports
      • Advanced usage of viewports
      • Viewport Symbols
    • PPLUS layout commands
    • Controlling the white space around plots
  • 6.8 CONTOURING
    • Ferret contour controls
      • /LEVELS qualifier
      • /PEN, /SIZE, /SIGDIG, /SPACING qualifiers
    • PPLUS contour commands
  • 6.9 SPECIAL SYMBOLS
    • 6.10 MAP PROJECTIONS AND CURVILINEAR COORDINATES
      • Three-argument (curvilinear) version of SHADE, FILL, CONTOUR, and VECTOR
      • Gridded data sets on curvilinear coordinates
      • Layered (sigma) coordinates
      • Map Projections
        • Using Map Projection scripts
        • Overlays with Map Projections
        • Map Projection scripts