Re: [ferret_users] metafile -->ps file -->pdf files?

["William S. Kessler" <william.s.kessler@xxxxxxxx>]

1) The quick and dirty solution is to use thicker lines (/line=7-18)  
for ps/pdf output than for gifs. It will look terrible on the screen  
but print much better.

A better solution:

2) Search the mail archives for "thick lines". The top thread of that  
search: "thicken lines in postscript output" has a full discussion of  
this point and several ways to deal with it.

I don't want to say that everything has already been done, but the  
mail archives very often have the answers to these questions. They're  
a great storehouse of Ferret knowledge and expertise accumulated over  
many years. I urge people to search the archives before blasting off a  
question to the group. You might very well find what you're looking for.

Billy K


On Jan 9, 2009, at 9:49 AM, yangxing zheng wrote:

> Hi ferreters,
>
>   I have a question that I do not understand. For example, as I plot  
> lines or make contours, the bold(thick) curves or contours become  
> thin and light as we view the generated postscript file using gs, or  
> if they are converted into .pdf files. I produce the .ps file in  
> ferret using the command:
>
> spawn Fprint -o .ps -l cps metafile.plt
>
> I understand if we save the file in .gif file, we can keep the bold/ 
> thick contours. But the quality of the figure is usually poor.
>
> Does anyone know how to keep the bold/thick curves and contour lines  
> as we plot but with a high quality?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Yangxing