I should reiterate what Bill stated. It would be nice if this could be made
easier for everyone. Many people to whom I have suggested this option have
decided against it. They only want to use the UI.
Joleen
On Feb 11, 2014, at 12:53 PM, Joleen Feltz wrote:
> 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
>>
>>
>> --
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>>
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