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Hi, I don't often use ISL scripts, but I do use writeImage from the jython shell in McIDAS-V, I believe this would work in IDV as well. Since it is a challenge to remember everything, I have saved some of my favorite annotations help documentation so that I can copy, paste and adjust as needed: fileName = "Something.jpg" writeImage(fileName,"matte background=white top=100;matte background=white bottom=150;\ colorbar width=500 height=20 anchor=UM place=UM,0,20 showlines=true interval=5 showunit=true display=IASI;\ overlay text=IASI Dual Regression Surface Skin Temperature 16:55 UTC place=UM,0,60 anchor=UM color=black fontsize=20 fontface=Arial;\ overlay text=2013-05-20 anchor=LM place=LM,0,-90 color=black fontsize=32 fontface=Arial;\ overlay text=GOES-13 Visible Albedo 16:55 UTC anchor=LM place=LM,0,-60 color=black fontsize=24 fontface=Arial;\ overlay text=RAP 850-500hPa Wind Shear Vectors 17:00 UTC place=LM,0,-30 anchor=LM color=black fontsize=24 fontface=Arial") Joleen On Feb 11, 2014, at 12:28 PM, the Fingerhuts wrote: > All, > > To obtain better quality text I often use the drawing control or use an isl > script. > > Bill > > P.S. Please make this easy for everyone to use. > > On 2/11/2014 10:01 AM, Don Murray wrote: >> Hi Paul- >> >> On 2/10/14 3:41 PM, Paul Graham wrote: >>> Is it possible to improve the font quality in IDV, or are there any plans >>> afoot by the development team to do so? >> >> The font quality varies from platform to platform. I find that I get better >> quality on Windows than I do with Mac. But both suffer from the effects you >> see. Text using fonts gets turned into a series of triangles, filling the >> outline of the letter edges. I find Century Gothic works pretty well, but >> still not great. The Hershey fonts use lines only, but you see the lines >> when the text gets big. >> >>> It appears IDV does not handle scalable fonts, so often text appears >>> pixelated, jagged or with artefacts, especially when rescaled. >> >> A possible solution would be to use the Java 3D Text3D objects. That would >> require some significant development to add it to VisAD first, and then >> access that in the IDV. I'm not aware of anybody who is interested in doing >> that, although it would go a ways towards Unidata's goal of "publication >> quality graphics" for the IDV. >> >> Don > > > -- > The Fingerhuts > Saint Johnsbury, Vt, 05819 > > email: fingerhuts3@xxxxxxxxx > > _______________________________________________ > idvusers mailing list > idvusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > For list information, to unsubscribe, visit: > http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/mailing_lists/
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