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Steve, Thanks! Indeed the font quality is much better. I could use the GF driver and Xvfb to generate the image. I also thought about using a really large image, but i was not sure if everything would scale properly, especially the station plot data and station model, as i superimpose it. Maybe I will dig into the source code eventually by trying to see what is the difference between the PSC vs GIF drivers when generating this image. Many thanks! I will let you know how it goes with all the possible solutions. Christian On Thu, Jun 3, 2021 at 5:09 PM Steve Decker <sgdecker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Christian, > > Make sure to use the GF driver rather than GIF to get the best hardware > fonts, although they still aren't quite up to the quality of the PS fonts . > However, you can sort of fake it by generating a very high resolution GIF > image (with the Giant font size) and then downsampling. The attachment > shows an example; the original image was 3000x2000, which I then converted > to 1200x800. > > Sincerely, > Steve > > > On 6/3/21 10:39 AM, Christian Pagé wrote: > > Hi Steve, > > Thanks for your input! Yes, I have thought of doing that (swapping black > and white for example). > I just find the output of the GIF driver of much less quality than the > PSC, especially for fonts. > For example the HW font in PSC is looking much much better than in GIF. > Would there be another font I could use with the GIF driver of much better > quality than the HW one? > > Regarding the number of colors, from what I understand, GEMPAK is limited > to 32 colors, > because if you look into the other color tables, such as XWP, it has the > same number of colors as the PSC driver. > > Christian > > > On Thu, Jun 3, 2021 at 4:32 PM Steve Decker <sgdecker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > >> Christian, >> >> I wonder if PSC is limited to the standard 32 colors. I see the same >> issue on my machine. My suggestion would be to create the GIF, and then >> use ImageMagick to convert the image to PS. If you are looking for a white >> background, it would take a bit more work to swap black and white, but that >> would be doable as well. >> >> Sincerely, >> Steve >> >> On 6/3/21 3:49 AM, Christian Pagé wrote: >> >> Dear all, >> >> With the help of Pete, I finally have identified the problem, but I do >> not know how to solve it. >> >> Recap: >> I had NEXRAD NIDS plotting of N0Z for years without problem (station >> KCXX). Since it has been removed, I am switching to N0Q. >> The plot is done using sfmap and a PSC device. >> With the new N0Q in place, with proper entries in imgtyp.tbl as well >> as nex2gini.tbl, it works well with the GIF driver, but it doesn not work >> properly with the PSC driver, as all echos are the same color. Here is an >> example with the same datafile as input, and the only difference here being >> the DEVICE driver (GIF vs PSC). >> Any hint on why it gives those incorrect results for the PSC driver? >> >> Thanks! >> >> Christian >> >> [image: unnamed-2.gif] >> [image: unnamed.gif] >> >> >> On Wed, May 26, 2021 at 2:53 PM Christian Pagé <page.christian@xxxxxxxxx> >> wrote: >> >>> Dear all gempak users, >>> >>> I had to switch recently from the N0Z NEXRAD products to N0Q. >>> >>> The plotting is done with sfmap using the RAD keyword. >>> >>> Here is a comparison with another radar product for the same time (the >>> new N0Q is on the right-hand side). >>> There is a problem as all the values seem to be all the same... at least >>> with the same color. >>> >>> [image: Screenshot_20210523-091127.png][image: image.png] [image: >>> Screenshot_20210523-091110.png] >>> >>> I tried with several LUTFIL and it is always the same. >>> >>> The pqact.conf is just: >>> NEXRAD ^SDUS[23578]. .... >>> ([0-3][0-9])([0-2][0-9])([0-6][0-9]).*/p(...)(...) >>> FILE -overwrite -close >>> data/gempak/nexrad/NIDS/\5/\4/\4_(\1:yyyy)(\1:mm)\1_\2\3 >>> >>> Any hint on what could be wrong? >>> >>> ==== >>> >>> Another question is the LUTFIL. Previously I had this colormap with the >>> N0Z product: >>> [image: CXX_N0Z.1.gif] >>> Is there a way to generate a LUTFIL with the same colormap? >>> >>> Thanks for your help! >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> Christian Pagé >>> UQAM >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> NOTE: All exchanges posted to Unidata maintained email lists are >> recorded in the Unidata inquiry tracking system and made publicly >> available through the web. 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